Maven archetypes for Castor

Introduction

Maven has a very sophisticated feature named ‘archetype’ for bootstrapping development with e.g. frameworks such as Castor is. As we do have a very high appreciation for the benefits of this feature, we provide a selection of Maven archetypes for Castor.

• codegen-testcase: A template for a XML code generator test case, incl. JUnit test case, sample XML schema, builder properties and binding file.

Template for XML code generator test case

This archetype creates a standard Maven project with a preconfigured project structure that includes the following artefacts:

• JUnit test case
• Sample XML schema
• (Empty) builder properties file
• (Empty) XML code generator binding file
• A Maven POM with all the required dependencies (Castor XML, etc.).

In order to e.g. create a project based upon the codegen-testcase archetypes shown above, please issue the following Maven goal on your command line (of choice):

> mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.castor \
                       -DarchetypeArtifactId=codegen-testcase-archetype \
                       -DarchetypeVersion=1.4.1  \
                       -DgroupId=<your.group.id> \
                       -DartifactId=<your.artitact.id> \
                       -DpackageName=    

> mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.castor \
                       -DarchetypeArtifactId=codegen-testcase-archetype \
                       -DarchetypeVersion=<b>1.4.2-SNAPSHOT</b>  \
                       -DgroupId=&lt;your.group.id&gt; \
                       -DartifactId=&lt;your.artitact.id&gt; \
                       -DpackageName=    
          -DremoteRepositories=https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public