Apache Maven Archetype 2.3 Released

Mar 13, 2015 · 1 min read ·

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Archetype, version 2.3.

In short, Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit.

Using the new release:

1mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.3:generate

Bugs:

ARCHETYPE-345 - archetype:create-from-project do not process and sections into EARs pom.xml
ARCHETYPE-397 - Required property default value is not displayed correctly if a Velocity expression
ARCHETYPE-413 - on linux adding element to generate pom.xml changes line endings to /r/n
ARCHETYPE-429 - JIRA report in site only shows fixes up to v2.1 of plugin
ARCHETYPE-435 - Bad link to old docs in usage page
ARCHETYPE-477 - Upgrade maven-invoker-plugin from 1.7 to 1.9

Improvements:

ARCHETYPE-182 - Adding 'role-hint' for the default Selector/Configurer/Queryer implementations
ARCHETYPE-401 - use repo.maven.apache.org CNAME to provide more stability
ARCHETYPE-418 - use plugin annotations
ARCHETYPE-428 - Improve Generate project in batch mode doc page
ARCHETYPE-465 - Upgrade to maven-parent version 26
ARCHETYPE-466 - Upgrade maven-invoker 2.0.11 to 2.1.1
ARCHETYPE-467 - Removed unused maven-war-plugin dependency.
ARCHETYPE-468 - Upgrade maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3

Tasks.

ARCHETYPE-431 - Only include Apache Maven archetypes in internal archetype catalog
ARCHETYPE-432 - Update distributionManagement in POM
ARCHETYPE-471 - Make a final Maven 2.2.1 release

Wish:

Enjoy,