The initiative to create Weld archetypes has had a further reaching impact than just the community of developers interested in using CDI (via Weld). A recent entry on the Sonatype blog, titled Maven Archetypes and Nexus: “There is No Faster Way”, cites the Weld archetypes as:
...the perfect case study of how using Archetypes benefits the community.
Steven Boscarine (Weld community contributor) is applauded for recognizing the value archetypes can bring to the community and for ultimately getting them promoted to Maven central for all to use.
Although archetypes are rather technically simple, it's important to recognize the impact they can have by starting people off on the right foot.
By the way, we are still looking for contributors that would like to help shape the vision for the Weld archetypes, and to get us from beta to a stable release.
I've created a project from the archetypes and maybe I'm just missing it: Is there a Maven Archetype that includes the appropriate set-up to do integration tests?
Drew, the next pre-release of the Weld archetypes will include an integration setup and example test based on Arquillian. I am currently working with the rest of the Arquillian team to get a pre-release of Arquillian out so that the archetypes can depend on it. Stay tuned!
Good stuff!
Sounds great. Will there be a Google App Engine support in the next version? What are your plans on that?
Regards Michael
I've created an issue to track this request: WELDX-78. We'll see how soon we can get this to happen. The only blocker is not having to use a patched version of Mojarra.