Re: [m2e-users] Dumb newbie archetype question

[Steve Cohen <scohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks!  Wish I'd paid more attention to this sooner.  Wouldn't have 
wasted so many hours.  Failure to get this archetype right was causing 
the many problems I've had yesterday and today.  With the fix, I now 
have an app that at least loads.

Progress!

On 09/13/2011 04:39 PM, Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> You may be seeing [1], which should be fixed in Indigo SR1. You can get
> fixed m2e version as part of Indigo "for java developers" SR1 RC build
> or install it from m2e 1.0.x milestone repository [2]
>
> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=344990
> [2] http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/milestones/1.0
>
> --
> Regards,
> Igor
>
> On 11-09-13 5:29 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
> > Thanks, but that's exactly the problem. I thought I'd see the webapp
> > archetype under org.apache.maven.archetypes - but I don't! Where is it?
> > Does this simply mean that my company's Nexus is missing something this
> > basic? Hard to believe but possible, I guess. Browsing the Nexus, I see
> > a pom for /org/apache/maven/archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp but
> > nothing else. How is an archetype supposed to be implemented? Are we
> > missing something?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 09/13/2011 04:13 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> > > Watch this:
> > > http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/creating-a-simple-project-in-m2eclipse.html
> > >
> > >
> > > And pick the webapp archteype.
> > >
> > > On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Pardon the dumb newbie question but I'm new to archetypes and am
> > > > being driven crazy by this device that is supposed to make my life
> > > > simple.
> > > >
> > > > OK, I've upgraded to Eclipse 3.7. I've gotten the latest m2e and
> > > > m2e-wtp. I want to play with a simple tutorial example first. OK,
> > > > this looks like a good one: http://www.insaneprogramming.be/?p=140
> > > >
> > > > First step the author recommends:
> > > >
> > > > > We're going to start with a basic web application, which in my case
> > > > > means firing up Maven's mvn archetype:generate and choosing the
> > > > > simple webapp archetype. So now we have this:
> > > > >
> > > > > .
> > > > > |-- pom.xml
> > > > > `-- src
> > > > > `-- main
> > > > > |-- resources
> > > > > `-- webapp
> > > > > |-- WEB-INF
> > > > > | `-- web.xml
> > > > > `-- index.jsp
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Evidently, the author thought it was too simple to provide the name
> > > > of this simple webapp archetype, but doing a little googling, I find
> > > > that he must mean maven-archetype-webapp from
> > > > org.apache.maven.archetypes, which is documented to produce the
> > > > structure he's aiming for.
> > > >
> > > > But lo and behold, I don't find this archetype in the list brought up
> > > > by m2e. My company's Nexus repository supposedly mirrors maven
> > > > central. So what gives? Why can't I find this SIMPLE archetype to
> > > > build this SIMPLE project? Why is this SIMPLE thing taking me all day?
> > > >
> > > > <end-of-rant>
> > > >
> > > > Seriously, I'd appreciate any help. Has this thing been deprecated,
> > > > removed, or something? How SHOULD I create a simple webapp from an
> > > > archetype using m2e?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > Jason van Zyl
> > > Founder, Apache Maven
> > > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Selfish deeds are the shortest path to self destruction.
> > >
> > > -- The Seven Samuari, Akira Kurosawa
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > Jason van Zyl
> > > Founder, Apache Maven
> > > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is
> > > not worth knowing.
> > >
> > > -— Alan Perlis
> > >
> > >
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