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Sounds like you are trying to do the job of maven archetypes

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Michael Rutherfurd 2010-10-19 07:38:23

Not exactly ! if so I will be creating an archtype each and everytime the plugin is called.

NS Gopikrishnan 2010-10-19 08:19:29

You could check if the appropriate structure is present and if not execute mvn. Apparently you can create your own archetypes as well. Maybe that is the way to go... Create custom archetype, plugin creates new project by plugging user supplied detail into archetype call

Michael Rutherfurd 2010-10-20 00:59:24

How will the plugin know that my archtype is present at the client ? Or did you mean to add the archtype first and then make the plugin call it for creating the project ?

NS Gopikrishnan 2010-10-21 06:20:41

@NS Gopikrishnan: The archetype creates the project structure you've told it to. You could check if the archetype has been run by looking for something unique to your project structure e.g. pom.xml and your customised .classpath perhaps. I think the best way is to tie the mvn archetype command into new project creation.

Michael Rutherfurd 2010-10-21 23:22:30

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Not sure what you want/need to do exactly but you could maybe use the MavenXpp3Writer#write() method from the Maven Model API to write a POM from a given Model.

Pascal Thivent 2010-10-19 12:03:47

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