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Our requirements

  • Nice interactive user experience (terminal prompts)
  • Structured properties to support conditons (e.g. if ${jpa} then ask ${data-source})
  • Map files and templates to archetype properties
  • Standalone (no mvnw, no pom.xml, just java)
  • Support Maven Archetype ?

Maven Archetype issues

  • Flat properties structure (How to support conditions?)
  • No property description (How to describe the properties on the interactive command prompt?)
  • No optional files (How to include certain files only when certain properties are set?)
  • Requires Maven (How to bootstrap from the cli ? How about Gradle?)
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