Archetypes Development

Helidon provides a set of archetypes to bootstrap end user's application development journey. They are implemented here based on [Archetype V2 engine] (https://github.com/helidon-io/helidon-build-tools/wiki/Archetype-Engine-V2)

Build

From the root archetypes directory, just issue

mvn clean install

This will build all archetypes (including legacy) and run tests. To save time, during development cycle, you can skip test using

mvn clean install  -Darchetype.test.skip=true

Test

Archetypes build generates cli-data that you can provide to installed Helidon CLI.

helidon init --reset --url file:///<path-to>/helidon/archetypes/helidon/target/cli-data

Once the archetype is selected the other options have defaults (and allows user to make selections) and the project is generated in a directory named after the artifactId value.

cd `artifactId`

Now, just follow instructions in the generated README file.