Creating archetypes from roo projects

[Fireball]

Hi there,

i tried to generate an archetype from a newly generated roo project. I just did:

roo> project --topLevelPackage com.foo.demo
shell> mvn archetype:create-from-project
shell> mvn install

but when trying to generate a project with:
shell> mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local

there are some warnings:

[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 80,column 34] : ${aspectj.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 99,column 34] : ${spring.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 104,column 34] : ${spring.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 110,column 34] : ${spring.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 115,column 34] : ${spring.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 120,column 34] : ${spring.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 125,column 34] : ${spring.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 160,column 58] : ${aspectj.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources\pom.xml [
line 165,column 58] : ${aspectj.version} is not a valid reference.

and nothing is there

Any ideas?

Greetings Fireball

[Ben Alex]

The default Roo-generated pom.xml uses the <properties> element (at the bottom of the file) to store the Spring and AspectJ version numbers. I presume the Maven Archetype module is having a problem parsing this correctly. In any event I'd recommend you use Roo to generate new projects as we'll continue to improve what constitutes a default project in the future (whereas an archetype is a fixed version in time).