Using The Sakai Maven Archetypes to Get Started Creating Tools

Mike Jennings, UNC-Chapel Hill

What is a Maven Archetype?

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In short, Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit.

The archetypes provide users with a way to get there Maven project setup quickly by providing a sample project that demonstrates many of the features of Maven.

What Maven Archetypes are available for Sakai?

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Sakai Wicket Maven Archetype

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Sakai+Wicket+Maven+Archetype

Sakai Spring MVC Maven Archetype

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Sakai+Spring+MVC+Maven+Archetype

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Lets Create A Project!!

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Step 1

Navigate to the location you would like to have your project create in.

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.sakaiproject.maven-archetype -DarchetypeArtifactId=sakai-spring-maven-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.2 -DarchetypeRepository=https://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/

Step 2

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Just Use this Simple Command

mvn clean install sakai:deploy

Step 3

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Build your project

Step 4

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START TOMCAT!!!!

What is In this Project?

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A Basic Spring MVC Project

The Sakai Project Maven Layout

Examples of API's, Transfer Objects, Implementations, and components

Examples of getting information about users, sessions, ect.

Whats Next?

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Project Lombok

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You will need to configure Eclipse to take advantage of the lombok annotations currently used in both the Spring and Wicket Maven Archetypes.

Download the jar from:

http://projectlombok.org/download.html

Install in Eclipse by running:

java -jar lombok.jar

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Import Your Project Into Eclipse

Having Archetype Issues?

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File a Jira

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https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MARCH

Now Off To Battle!!!

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Thanks!

Mike JenningsSoftware DeveloperEmail : gjennings@gmjjavadesigns.com

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