[ANN] Maven Archetype version 2.0-alpha-5 Released

[Hervé Boutemy <hb...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Archetype 
components version 2.0-alpha-5.

Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit.

http://maven.apache.org/archetype/

Release Notes - Maven Archetype - Version 2.0-alpha-5

** Bug
    * [ARCHETYPE-81] - Archetype not downloaded until pom is placed in working 
dir
    * [ARCHETYPE-89] - archetypeng:create doesn't use configured repos to find 
artifacts
    * [ARCHETYPE-110] - Maven archetype overwrites parent information
    * [ARCHETYPE-142] - catalog default location problem in 
CrawlRepositoryMojo
    * [ARCHETYPE-234] - archetype:crawl fails on large repositories (Too many 
open files)
    * [ARCHETYPE-235] - DefaultPomManager.mergePoms  ignores ordering of 
plugins
    * [ARCHETYPE-243] - archetype:create-from-project generates xnl file, not 
xml
    * [ARCHETYPE-262] - Allow empty properties in generated pom.xml
    * [ARCHETYPE-270] - RemoteCatalogArchetypeDataSource leaves open wagon 
connection when archetype catalog retrieval fails
    * [ARCHETYPE-292] - both 1.0.X archetype.xml and 2.0.x archetype-
metadata.xml descriptors are generated: only one is needed

** Improvement
    * [ARCHETYPE-61] - Configure distributionManagement for archetype
    * [ARCHETYPE-158] - Create a directory with name artiactId
    * [ARCHETYPE-162] - Prepend java package declaration to the java file path
    * [ARCHETYPE-192] - Property replacement for required properties
    * [ARCHETYPE-217] - mvn archetype:help should not require a pom
    * [ARCHETYPE-224] - Add Tapestry 5 Quickstart archetype to the list of 
"internal" archectypes
    * [ARCHETYPE-229] - Do not use hardcoded path to the build directory in 
create-from-project goal
    * [ARCHETYPE-237] - Provide schema for archetype descriptor
    * [ARCHETYPE-249] - Add Apache Camel WAR archetype to internal catalog
    * [ARCHETYPE-259] - Provide XSD schema for archetype-catalog.xml
    * [ARCHETYPE-272] - Change GMaven archetype to newer package name
    * [ARCHETYPE-281] - Update to plexus-velocity 1.1.8 and Velocity 1.5
    * [ARCHETYPE-290] - recreate the internal catalogue to include new wiki 
page changes (the scalate archetypes)
    * [ARCHETYPE-291] - add old archetype support for integration-test
    * [ARCHETYPE-293] - generated archetype pom.xml should reference POM XML 
Schema
    * [ARCHETYPE-294] - provide a basic it in created archetype

** New Feature
    * [ARCHETYPE-47] - use an xml schema for archetype.xml

Enjoy,

-The Maven team