My pain points also were (and continue to be) configuring the application. Archetypes, of course, would eliminate that frustration completely by giving us an analog to the 'rails' script. Amen. Personally, I'd like to see a minimal CRUD app with various archetypes for different configurations under both Tomcat and JBoss. btw, Gavin, creating a Maven archetype takes no more than 10 mins, even if you know nothing about Maven. See http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-creating-archetypes.html for details. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959382#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...