Maven archetypes are an excellent way of allowing people to create instances of a particular type of project without having them to know or worry about all of the peculiarities and details. (And the latest incarnations of the Maven Archtetype Plugin are actually way better than I realized: somewhere down the line, they introduced the ability to use Velocity templates for parameterizing the output. Nice!) Since some of the dependencies of Preon are not in the central Maven repository yet, I

Tags: Dependencies, Incarnations, Instances, Organizing, Peculiarities, Repository, Templates, Velocity