The Maven Archetype is not very flexible and therefore not used in the MicroProfile Starter where I used templating and programmatic generation of the project.
The current PR is an example of Jakarta Rest, but if you want to add later on, selectable through the UI or the REST API that can be created in front of it, database access or using OpenLiberty or Payara as test runtime this will not be possible. (if you only want to have the minimal what is selected and not all options by default)
Agreed. Also I think I remember a conversation we had at the beginning of the project about archetypes and why they weren't enough, therefore this project, as it is today, was needed.
We may consider (down the road) to create or use a CLI generator or a IDE plugin that communicates with the project's REST api to generate what is needed ( kinda like the plugin for Spring starter).
Your PR seems really nice from the code perspective, Hantsy :) But i'm not sure if we should go this way. Anyone please feel free to correct me.
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