Greetings
Committers and Contributors,
I am super excited to see
the starter project moving
forward after a little
standstill. There has been
some great progress made
lately! New contributors and
committers are on board. We
now have a simple UI
available at
https://start.jakarta.ee that
generates a simple project for
Jakarta EE 8, Jakarta EE 9.1,
and Jakarta EE 10. The
feedback I have received from
the community when demoing it
has been 100% positive.
The UI uses bare-minimum
archetypes to generate the
code. The next steps would be
to add support for runtimes
and possibly explore creating
a CLI as an alternative to the
Web UI.
In addition to the UI,
there are also several
archetypes that generate more
extensive examples being
worked on. Since everything is
based on archetypes, adding
these and potentially other
archetypes created by the
community should be fairly
straightforward.
The archetypes for EE 8,
9.1, and 10 could be
mashed together as one with
the conditional logic inside
the archetype. I am not sure
if this is the right thing to
do, though.
Keep in mind that as we go
forward with EE 11, 12, 13,
... the older versions won't
need much attention.
Sometimes, a little
duplication is favorable over
adding another branch in the
logic (even if it is just
another if-statement...).
The option of creating a
server-based solution to
generate the starter
projects is still an option
if someone wants to pursue
this. It is always good to
have options.
Personally, I think the
approach to base the starter
on archetypes is a better
and more flexible way to go.
The only server needed is
Maven Central, and that is
already there and not our
problem to maintain. And it
provides the option for
developers to consume the
archetypes directly, via our
UI, potentially a CLI, or
directly in IDEs.
Ivar
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Ivar Grimstad
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate | Eclipse Foundation
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