Wicket quick start

Mon Oct 27 09:02:00 CDT 2008

Evaluating wicket via a maven quickstart. First I ran into a strange mvn problem:

$ mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.wicket -DarchetypeArtifactId=wicket-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=1.3.5 -DgroupId=com.mycompany -DartifactId=useradmin [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Maven Default Project [INFO] task-segment: [archetype:create] (aggregator-style) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Setting property: classpath.resource.loader.class => 'org.codehaus.plexus.velocity.ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader'. [INFO] Setting property: velocimacro.messages.on => 'false'. [INFO] Setting property: resource.loader => 'classpath'. [INFO] Setting property: resource.manager.logwhenfound => 'false'. [INFO] [archetype:create] [INFO] Defaulting package to group ID: com.mycompany Downloading: http://private-artifactory.drillingxxx.com:8081/artifactory/combined/org/apache/wicket/wicket-archetype-quickstart/1.3.5/wicket-archetype-quickstart-1.3.5.jar [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error creating from archetype

Embedded error: OldArchetype does not exist. http://private-artifactory.drillingxxx.com:8081/artifactory/combined/org/apache/wicket/wicket-archetype-quickstart/1.3.5/wicket-archetype-quickstart-1.3.5.jar [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 52 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Mon Oct 27 10:04:26 CDT 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 10M/162M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

This may have been a problem with artifactory locally; not sure. I tried pulling down different versions and even the quickstart pom itself (which didn't build readily due to not being able to resolve a component). Then I got a complaint that the directory already existed. At some point it worked. So, maybe our local artifactory couldn't hit the original repo. Dunno. Ok...it's working.