This is a reference for the Archetype Catalog descriptor.
These are standard catalog files which contain information about Archetypes so that users can be presented with a list of archetypes from any number of catalogs to generate new projects.
The Archetype Plugin knows by default its internal catalog. It also knows
about the local
and remote
catalogs:
local
represents the ~/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml
catalog file,remote
represents the http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml
catalog file.The Archetype Plugin can also read catalogs from filesystem/HTTP by providing the path/URL of a catalog file or
of a directory containing an archetype-catalog.xml
file.
<archetype-catalog xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/archetype-catalog/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/archetype-catalog/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/archetype-catalog-1.0.0.xsd"> <archetypes> <archetype> <groupId/> <artifactId/> <version/> <repository/> <description/> </archetype> </archetypes> </archetype-catalog>
No description.
Element | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
archetypes/archetype* |
List<Archetype> |
(Many) List of Acthetypes available in this catalog. |
Informations to point to an Archetype referenced in the catalog.
Element | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
groupId |
String |
The groupId of the archetype. |
artifactId |
String |
The artifactId of the archetype. |
version |
String |
The version of the archetype. RELEASE is a valid version. |
repository |
String |
The repository where to find the archetype. When omitted, the archetype is searched for in the repository where the catalog comes from. |
description |
String |
The description of the archetype. |