Knappsack – Andy Gibson

JBoss Java EE 6 spec dependency in Maven

Andy Gibson QuickBytes

Adam Bien wrote about the Troubled with the crippled Java EE 6 APIs in Maven and a solution for them. Another solution has presented itself now that JBoss has finalized the Java EE 6 spec pom and added it to their public repositories as of early January 2011. You can include the spec in your […]

Knappsack Archetypes Part 2

Andy Gibson Articles

In part 1, we looked at the basic structure and configuration of the project that is common in all the archetypes. This time we’ll look at the minimal archetype that contains some more functionality and a number of different classes used to implement that functionality.

Create A New Project With Maven Archetypes

Andy Gibson Tutorials

Prerequisites Install Maven In this tutorial, we will create a new project using the Knappsack Archetypes and compile and deploy it. For this example, we will use the jee6-basic-archetype. Before you begin, you will need to have installed Maven, but you no longer need to manually install the Knappsack Archetypes as they are in the […]

Installing the Knappsack Archetypes

Andy Gibson Tutorials

This is a brief guide to downloading and installing the Knappsack Maven Archetypes for Java EE 6.

Knappsack Archetypes Part 1

Andy Gibson Articles

This set of articles will document the contents of the Java EE archetypes for Maven. The archetypes come in four flavors, basic,minimal, sandbox and sandbox demo with each one being based on the previous one. In part 1, we’ll give an overview of the archetypes and the structure and configuration used in all of the […]