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[jira] Created: (ARCHETYPE-63) Provide more properties (like current date) that are provided automatically

Provide more properties (like current date) that are provided automatically
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                 Key: ARCHETYPE-63
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-63
             Project: Maven Archetype
          Issue Type: New Feature
    Affects Versions: 1.0-alpha-3
            Reporter: Martin Ahrer


I'm trying to create archetypes that create project templates that need to refer to properties other than 
groupId
artifactId
version
packageName
archetypeGroupId
...

to allow more flexible customization of the templates using velocity. for example I'm providing a changes.xml with a pre-set release element. this here refers to a variable $currentDate (like the site plugin provides one) through a VTL expression.

		<release version="1.0" date="$currentDate" description="First release">
			<action dev="xxx" type="add">$currentDate: initial project setup</action>
		</release>

But there might be more auto-properties that one could think of!
* date
* time
* current user
* ...

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