Summary
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Maven archetype providing a pre-configured Spring MVC setup out of the box. The setup represents how I like things configured for a quick setup so YMMV.

This is my first archetype, feel free to send patches if you find something that can be improved.


Contact
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Chris Schaefer - [email protected]


Features
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Some features that work out of the box are:

* Bare bones Spring MVC controller and a simple test.
* Tomcat ready (maven plugin).
* Annotation driven Spring MVC controllers.
* Configured ContentNegotiatingViewResolver, with JSON as a registered media type.
* JSTL view resolver.
* Cookie based locale resolver / interceptor.
* Transaction support.
* UTF-8 character encoding filter for web pages.
* Spring taglib support.
* i18n support via Spring MessageSource.
* Basic DataSource configuration, JdbcTemplate and TransactionManager configuration. Its up to you to configure the dataSource
  in datasource-beans.xml for persistence to actually do something.
* PropertyPlaceholder support.


Local Install
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clone repository
cd maven-springmvc-archetype (or your custom clone location)
mvn install


Use
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cd ~/work (or wherever you want to build to)

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=com.dtzq \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-springmvc-archetype \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.3-SNAPSHOT \
  -DgroupId=your_group_id \
  -DartifactId=the_artifact_id \
  -Dpackage=the_package_name

Answer the questions and the build will end up in a directory named after your artifact ID. Configure the dataSource bean in datasource-beans.xml to match your database configuration.

cd $artifactId ; mvn package

A WAR ready for deployment will be in target/ as $artifactId.war. If you have say tomcat running, simply run 'mvn tomcat:run' to deploy and test it. Go to http://localhost:8080/$artifactId and the example page should load.