Re: [weld-dev] Weld archetypes in the spotlight

That's interesting. The Basics of Creating Rails Plugins A Rails plugin is either an extension or a modification of the core framework. Plugins provide: - a way for developers to share bleeding-edge ideas without hurting the stable code base - a segmented architecture so that units of code can be fixed or updated on their own release schedule - an outlet for the core developers so that they don’t have to include every cool new feature under the sun http://guides.rubyonrails.org/plugins.html Sounds like CDI PEs (portable extensions) was a ripoff of this idea... And wasn't seam-gen alarmingly similar to Grails in terms of quick project setup/startup? PE is strikingly similar to Rails plugins based on the above description when you think of Seam 3 having Weld as its new core and the "extras" like jBPM integration, remoting, iText, PDF, Excel, etc. Maven 2 already has the concept of MOJO (Maven POJO) and plugins: http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html Not sure what added-value you're suggesting?? On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Piotr Steininger <piotr.steininger(a)gmail.com > I totally agree. Weld archetypes are probably the best polished ones I have > ever seen. They remind me of some of the Rails semantics (get up and running > in minutes). > > These similarities got me thinking about another aspect of Rails - Plugins > or gems (which I think is a mixed bag). The promise of plugins/gems is that > you can quickly add dependent code and do some setup in minutes as well. I > think that maven could very well be a platform to do the same. Currently one > has to add dependencies by hand and quite often tweak the exclusions. With > the introduction of maven console plugin, I think the door became open to > create maven plugins/console scripts to make this a more automated process. > > I don't have the expertise to create a prototype. I also don't know if this > is really something that could be useful in the community (or simply serve > as a tool for Maven newbies). > > In any case, I wanted to see what the community thinks about this. > > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com> >> The Weld archetype initiative has had a further reaching impact than just >> the community of developers interested in using CDI (via Weld). A recent >> blog entry on Sonatype cites the Weld archetypes as "the perfect case study >> of how using Archetypes benefits the community." Steven is acknowledged for >> his effort to identify the need of archetypes and ultimately get them >> promoted to Maven central for all to use. >> >> >> http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/01/maven-archetypes-and-nexus-there-i... >> >> Although archetypes are rather technically simple, it's important to >> recognize the impact they can have by starting people off on the right foot. >> >> -Dan >> >> -- >> Dan Allen >> Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action >> Registered Linux User #231597 >> >> http://mojavelinux.com >> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction >> http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> weld-dev mailing list >> weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > weld-dev mailing list > weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev >