Are there no Wildfly 8 / Java EE 7 quickstart archetypes? [closed]

Question

I remember from Jboss AS 7 and earlier there being convenient maven archetypes available that would set up maven projects with the apropriate dependencies and BOM, but I can't find any for Wildfly/Java EE 7.

I found the BOMs and instruction on how to manually add them to a project, but I'm wondering if I'm not missing preconfigured archetypes that exist somewhere.

Also, if there are indeed no updated archetypes: why not ?

Answer 1

WildFly Java EE 7 archetypes are available at:

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.wildfly.archetype

Is that what you are looking for ?

Answer 2

Actually there are not yet official wildfly archetypes but you can start with webapp-javaee7 such as:

mvn -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes   \
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=webapp-javaee7              \
    -DarchetypeVersion=0.1-SNAPSHOT                   \
    -DarchetypeRepository=https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/snapshots/ \
    -DgroupId=com.sample                              \
    -DartifactId=javaee7-sample                       \
    -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT                            \
    -Dpackage=com.sample                              \
    -Darchetype.interactive=false                     \
    --batch-mode --update-snapshots archetype:generate

Then you can further refine your pom.xml by adding Bill of Materials and the WildFly plugin. See this Maven configuration tutorial for info about the available BOMs.