Archetypes

What the hell is an Archetypes?

• is a Maven project templating toolkit

• is defined as an original pattern of model from which all things are the same kind

• provides a consistent means of generating Maven projects

• providers a means to generate parameterised version of project templates

Using an Archetype

• Create new a project based on an Archetype

  • mvn archetype:generate

  • create a project that can be imported into IntelliJ

Setting your own environment up with a Repository manager

Try Open Source Artifactory

References

Maven: The Complete Reference - Seems like a good reference material so far.

Maven by Example - Be interesting to go through