Spring MVC 3.2 Quickstart Maven Archetype

Summary

The project is a Maven archetype for Spring MVC 3.2 web application.

Generated project characteristics

  • No-xml Spring MVC 3.2 web application for Servlet 3.0 environment
  • Apache Tiles with configuration in place
  • JPA 2.0 (Hibernate/HSQLDB)
  • JUnit/Mockito
  • Spring Security 3.1

Installation

run mvn install to install the archetype in your local repository

Create a project

mvn archetype:generate
    -DarchetypeGroupId=com.github.spring-mvc-archetypes
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-mvc-quickstart
    -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
    -DgroupId=my.groupid
    -DartifactId=my-artifactId
    -Dversion=version

Run the project

mvn tomcat7:run

Creating a new project in Eclipse

  • Install the archetype in local repository with mvn install
  • Go to Preferences > Maven > Archetypes and Add Local Catalog
  • Select the catalog from file (archetype-catalog.xml)
  • Create new Maven project and select the archetype (remember so select Include snapshot archetypes).