The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Archetype Plugin, version 2.0-alpha-3
The Archetype Plugin allows the user to create a Maven 2 project from
an existing template called an archetype. It also allows the user to
create an archetype from an existing project.
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/Release Notes - Maven Archetype - Version 2.0-alpha-3
** Bug
* [ARCHETYPE-122] - The defined artifact is not an archetype?
* [ARCHETYPE-124] - custom archetype-catalog.xml not read
* [ARCHETYPE-126] - Site menu is corrupted
* [ARCHETYPE-129] - incorrect error handling in batch mode
* [ARCHETYPE-130] - selecting "N" to "is this correct" question
resets all variables, even those that were input from the command line
* [ARCHETYPE-132] - The create-from-project goal does not work on
windows for multi-module projects
* [ARCHETYPE-137] - Problem when setting default values for
archetype-metadata.xml
* [ARCHETYPE-139] - cannot create archetype for existing project
without pre-existing pom
* [ARCHETYPE-140] - archetype:generate doesn't support inserting a
module into a multi-module build like :create did
* [ARCHETYPE-141] - wrong goal name in docs
* [ARCHETYPE-144] - Fails "archetype:create" when specify archetypeVersion
* [ARCHETYPE-146] - Archetype Resources not being processed on Windows.
* [ARCHETYPE-149] - archetype generate -DarchetypeRepository not working
* [ARCHETYPE-150] - New maven-archetype-plugin ignores the
remoteRepositories system property
* [ARCHETYPE-153] - Multimodule archetype does not propagate the
artifactId in module names.
* [ARCHETYPE-159] - mvn archetype:generate is failing to download
needed archetype artifacts
* [ARCHETYPE-160] - [regression] the default (15) is no longer
present in generate
** Improvement
* [ARCHETYPE-109] - plugins should have a auto-generated goal "help"
* [ARCHETYPE-112] - Allow to configure the filteredExtentions from
the archetype.properties file
* [ARCHETYPE-135] - add a variabl containing package in a path format
* [ARCHETYPE-143] - Add the possibility to generate files at project's root
** Wish
* [ARCHETYPE-154] - Can i ask when will alpha-3 released
Enjoy,
-The Maven team
