Testing maven archetype

First published on April 26 2008 and tagged Tech . Java .

Here is short entry to tell you how to use maven to quickly and nicely set up a open source (standard de facto) web application samples (ready for development, deploying, debugging and unit testing) : using

  • maven archetype plugins

  • jetty

  • eclipse

See my previous post for the prerequisites:

download the latest version of maven-archetype-plugin

To trick maven to update its version of maven-archetype-plugin I added this plugin dependency in one of my project. Don’t know if its the right way to do it. Maven can be so scriptic sometimes.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-archetype-plugin
    2.0-alpha-2

I’m pretty sure this is nicer way to do it; please, let me know.

Create your project from a appfuse-basic-spring maven archetype

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.appfuse.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=appfuse-basic-spring -DremoteRepositories=http://static.appfuse.org/releases -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.1 -DgroupId=com.adobe.consulting.fr -DartifactId=ac-fr-archetype

This plugin was to complex for me as a start :

It didn’t pass the 10 minutes test. So I switched to a webtide (the jetty guys) archetype, as I was looking for something simple for me stupid.

Create your project from a webtide maven-archetype-Spring maven archetype

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=com.webtide -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-Spring -DarchetypeVersion=1.0 -DgroupId=com.adobe.consulting.fr -DartifactId=maven-archetype-Spring-test

Create your WTP eclipse project

In order to

  • generate WTP project for Eclipse Europa,

  • configure your newly create eclipse project to use with the M2Elipse plugin.

use this commands:

mvn -Dwtpversion=1.5 eclipse:eclipse
mvn eclipse:m2eclipse -DdownloadSources=true  -DdownloadJavadocs=true

It’s downloading an amazing bunch of jars… Don’t know really why. Let me know. Anyway, ANT users will be have to be patient ! :-)

Test your newly create web application

Install Jetty and deploy your web app with maven, jetty and eclipse: Let’s Debug your web app with eclipse, maven and jetty

h5. Set up you jetty web app server as a runnable external tools:

Go to the Run/External Tools/External Tools …" menu item on the Run'' menu bar. Select Program'' and click the New'' button. On the Main'' tab, fill in the Location:'' as the full path to your mvn'' executable. For the Working Directory:'' select the workspace that matches your webapp. For Arguments:'' add jetty:run. Move to the Environment'' tab and click the New'' button to add a new variable named MAVEN_OPTS with the value:

-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djetty.port=9999 -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=9998,server=y,suspend=n

A few remarks about this:

  • If you supply suspend=y instead of suspend=n, it will suspend the web server until the debugger is launched

  • I chose 9999 as the web http port number, because I’m already running jboss on port 8080

  • I chose port 9998 as the debug port number cause it was already used as well, I faced a `’'ERROR: transport error 202: bind failed: Address already in use"

You may start jetty this way.

Deploy and Debug your project through eclipse launching maven jetty

Pull up the Run/Debug/Debug …'' menu item and select Remote Java Application'' and click the New'' button. Fill in the dialog by selecting your webapp project for the Project:'' field, and ensure you are using the same port number as you specified in the address= property above.

You may now Run/Debug your project.

spring-archetype-demo

Tip

By the way It’s quite usefull to your netstat command when you run jetty with the eclipse debugger

netstat -ao

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