The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Archetype Plugin, version 2.0-alpha-1

You can use it by calling mvn archetype:create

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Archetype Plugin - Version 2.0-alpha-1

** Bug * [ARCHETYPE-82] - add-groups doesn't create archetype.xml * [ARCHETYPE-83] - archetypeng:create crashes with java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.plugin.resource.loader.ProjectResourceLoader * [ARCHETYPE-84] - need a way to preserve the java package in create-from-project * [ARCHETYPE-87] - create-from-project replaces too many things in the pom with variables * [ARCHETYPE-88] - sometimes add-groups fails when there is a pom present * [ARCHETYPE-90] - all the contents of an archetype shouldn't be processed by velocity during creation * [ARCHETYPE-91] - create is prompting for a package * [ARCHETYPE-93] - archetypeng:create loop forever when the selected group contains no archetype * [ARCHETYPE-94] - Archetype not registered when installed in local repository * [ARCHETYPE-97] - <modules> section is missing after using create-from-project * [ARCHETYPE-98] - parents in modules are not always correctly updated * [ARCHETYPE-99] - child module is getting replaced with parent artifactId and groupId * [ARCHETYPE-100] - sibling dependencies are not updated * [ARCHETYPE-103] - acrchetype.properties should be in /target not root * [ARCHETYPE-104] - module name changed for unknown reason * [ARCHETYPE-105] - not able to create from project with sibling-dependencies test project * [ARCHETYPE-121] - build don't works on windows and jdk1.4

** Improvement * [ARCHETYPE-114] - NG code should not depend on Maven 2.1

** New Feature * [ARCHETYPE-95] - Provide creation of partial archetypes in create-from-project

** Task * [ARCHETYPE-72] - Generate standard archetypes from real projects

Enjoy,

-The Maven team