[weld-dev] Weld archetypes in the spotlight

[Piotr Steininger]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-is-no-faster-way/
>
> 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
>
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