February 24, 2010

Maven Archetypes Updated

Just deployed latest SNAPSHOT of maven archetypes:

bones-google-quickstart-archetype (Google GWT & AppEngine Web App With Bones and Gaeds)
google-quickstart-archetype (Google GWT & AppEngine Web App)

They’re finally updated to latest dependencies and even compile and run.

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://www.amateurinmotion.com/repository

To try them out make sure you have Maven 2.2.1 and run:

$ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://www.amateurinmotion.com/repository

...

Choose archetype:
1: http://www.amateurinmotion.com/repository -> google-quickstart-archetype               ↩ 
    (Google GWT & AppEngine Web App)
2: http://www.amateurinmotion.com/repository -> bones-google-quickstart-archetype         ↩
    (Google GWT & AppEngine Web App With Bones and Gaeds)
Choose a number:  (1/2): 2

...

Define value for groupId: : com.zeeba
Define value for artifactId: : zeeba
Define value for version:  1.0-SNAPSHOT: : 
Define value for package:  com.zeeba: : 
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: com.zeeba
artifactId: zeeba
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: com.zeeba
 Y: : 

...

$ cd zeeba
$ mvn install # compiles GWT module, packs war ready for AppEngine deployment

...

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Bones Quickstart ...................................... SUCCESS [1.631s]
[INFO] Quickstart -- Shared .................................. SUCCESS [1.480s]
[INFO] Quickstart -- GWT ..................................... SUCCESS [30.084s]
[INFO] Quickstart -- Server .................................. SUCCESS [2.208s]
[INFO] Quickstart -- War ..................................... SUCCESS [4.255s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 40 seconds

...

$ cd zeeba-gwt
$ mvn google:gwt-run          # to run GWT in Development Mode

$ cd zeeba-war
$ mvn google:appengine-run    # to run AppEngine local server with compiled GWT module

Deploy to AppEngine

To deploy app to AppEngine, set your login, password in ~/.m2/settings.xml:

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>appengine</id>
      <properties>
        <appengine-email> ... </appengine-email>
        <appengine-password> ... </appengine-password>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>appengine</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
</settings>

Run:

$ mvn deploy # needs maven distributionManagement/repository

or 

$ mvn install
$ cd zeeba-war
$ mvn google:appengine-deploy

Info about google-maven-plugin can be found at plugin information site.

Plugin and Bones also can be used with Springframework outside AppEngine environment.