Set up a Vaadin project with Maven2

General
1

Hi,
I’m new to Vaadin (and Maven); and I want to know how to set up a Vaadin Project with Maven2 (using m2eclipse plugin).

These are the steps I follow:

  1. File / New / Other / Maven Project
  2. Accept defaults in ‘New Maven Project’ window… next.
  3. In the archetype selection window I left the field ‘Catalog’ to ‘All catalogs’, and write ‘vaadin’ in the filter field. BUT after hitting return, no vaadin related archetype is showed (¿?).

Does somebody know if I have to define a special catalog or something like that?
Thanks…

2

How about creating a new Vaadin project and the enabling maven afterwards?

3

It sounds reasonable, but where are the Vaadin archetypes (‘vaadin-archetype-clean’, ‘vaadin-archetype-sample’ and ‘vaadin-archetype-widget’) mentioned in
Using Vaadin with Maven
 (http://vaadin.com/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Using%20Vaadin%20with%20Maven)?

(Probably I’m seriously lost in Maven general concepts)

4

Sorry, but cannot really help you, as I tried out maven for the first time
today
 :slight_smile: Hope someone else can answer your questions.

5

The archetypes are in the default Nexus repositories searched by a standard maven install. So if you have m2eclipse installed, when you create a Maven project using the “New Project…” wizard, you only have to type vaadin in the search box for the archetypes.

See http://www.screencast.com/users/jflamy/folders/Jing/media/f44608a7-a2d2-407a-967a-8acd81b6e99c for a screenshot. (the img feature of the forum seems to be broken, sorry)

6

Thanks…
In my home I see the vaadin archetypes (in Nexus catalog as you say), but not in my office, so I think I have a proxy issue…

7

Problem solved.
Declared proxy section in settings.xml

(
more detailed explanation -in spanish-
)

8

If one does not want to use Maven archetypes, there is a simple solution:

  1. Create a standard maven web application project.

  2. Add the following dependency:

     <dependency>
     <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
     <artifactId>vaadin</artifactId>
     <version>6.4.8</version>
 </dependency>

Et voilà !!!

P.S.: Maven concepts are a bit hard to learn - I hated Maven at the beginning, because the documentation was bad -, but now that I am over the learning curve, I really love it (and the documentation has really improved since) !!!

9

I highly recommend this. I use maven a great deal, but when I’m creating a new project I
only
 use it when I want to make something easy to share (like an example in a blog). Every time I do this, it’s easier to go find and copy some other web project than figure it out from scratch. Adding Vaadin is the simplest part.

Cheers,
Bobby

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  1. Add the maven archetype catalog http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml to you eclipse under Preferences->Maven->Add Remote Catalog.
  2. New Maven project
  3. Filter on Vaadin and you will see the Maven archetypes for Vaadin.