Re: [starter-dev] [jakarta.ee-community] An introduction to my Jakarta E

[hantsy bai <hantsy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rudy, If you like the complete configurations for all application servers, check https://github.com/hantsy/jakartaee9-starter-boilerplate  currently, WildFly, Payara do not contain adapters for Jakarta EE 9.

Spring initializr project(https://start.spring.io) uses Eclipse Aether to manipulate the project models.

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Aether

After googling, it seems it also is possible to use a template engine(such as Freemarker, etc ) in maven archetypes to render the template files.

This maven archetype just starts to create a simple Jakarta EE 9 project. And in the future, I think it is possible to enrich it.

Hantsy Bai

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:57 AM Reza Rahman <reza_rahman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Ivar,

I am having trouble understanding why an Archetype would not be flexible enough? A simple Archetype only generates static content, but you can also have one that is dynamic and accepts parameters on what to generate? Just in case, here is a good write-up on how it can be done, it is actually quite easy: https://ngeor.com/2019/09/07/optional-files-maven-archetype.html.

Wouldn’t that be flexible enough to put behind a UI or REST interface in case of Jakarta EE? What am I missing?

Reza Rahman

Jakarta EE Ambassador, Author, Blogger, Speaker

Please note views expressed here are my own as an individual community member and do not reflect the views of my employer.

On Mar 28, 2021, at 1:41 PM, Ivar Grimstad <ivar.grimstad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



I agree with you both, the primary goal of this project is to create a generator similar to MicroProfile and Spring.

But, since we are not making very much progress with the actual generator, I think it means a great deal of sense to publish a couple of archetypes on https://start.jakarta.ee until we have a generator ready.

Kind or an intermediate step between the "Download this zip" we have today and the Generator.

Ivar

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 6:17 PM Jeyvison Nascimento <jeynoronha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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