Creating ZK Component with Maven Archetype

How to create a ZK Component Maven project

Create Project of Maven

• [File] -> [New] -> [Other] --> [Maven Project]

  

• Make sure Create a simple project is not ticked in the first screen of the New Maven Project wizard and click Next >.

  

• From the Select an Archetype screen, we'll need to add the ZK archetype catalog. Click Configure....

  

• From the Maven archetypes catalogs setting, click Add Remote Catalog... and add the catalog file:

  

http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2/

• Click Verify... and then OK to add the catalog.
  • Remote catalog is empty.
• Click OK in the "Preferences" dialogue.
• Now you should be able to find zk in the Catalog dropdown list.

  

• Select the zk-archetype-component from the list. (At time of writing this is at version 0.8.0).
• Next, fill in details for group id, artifact id, version number and package name.

  

  • If property zk-version-since or component class is missing.
• Click Finish and the Eclipse status bar should say ' Creating zk-archetype-component ' and ' Updating Maven Dependencies '. If this is the user's first time dealing with ZK libraries, Maven will download the necessary dependencies to compile and run this example, and would be stored in .m2/repository in your home directory.

  

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How to run Maven project on Run-Jetty-Run

1. Go to Run Configurations

   

2. Double click on Jetty Webapp
   • It will automatically fill-out Project / Port / Context / WebApp Dir

   

3. Click Run and start browsing local ZK application at http://127.0.0.1:8080/mycomps/

Packing your component

1. Go to Run As > Maven package

   

2. The project will be packed into a war file and a zip file with source code.

   

Use the command line version of Maven for creating the project

• Here describes how to set up Maven.
• Go to the folder for your Eclipse workspace, then run this command.
• Calling archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2/ the plugin will first ask to choose the archetype from the zk catalog. Just enter the number of the archetype.
• It then asks you to enter the values for the groupId, the artifactId and the version of the project to create and the base package for the sources.
• It then asks for confirmation of the configuration and performs the creation of the project.
• In the following example, we selected the component archetype (numbered 1) and set groupId to org.test, artifactId to mycomps, version to 1.0-SNAPSHOT and package to org.test.mycomps.

$ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2/
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Default Project
[INFO]    task-segment: [archetype:generate] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Preparing archetype:generate
[INFO] No goals needed for project - skipping
[INFO] [archetype:generate {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode
[INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)
Choose archetype:
1: http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2/ -> zk-archetype-component (zk-archetype-component)
2: http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2/ -> zk-archetype-webapp (zk-archetype-webapp)
Choose a number: : 1
Downloading: http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2//org/zkoss/zk-archetype-component/0.8.0/zk-archetype-component-0.8.0.jar
20K downloaded  (zk-archetype-component-0.8.0.jar)
Downloading: http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2//org/zkoss/zk-archetype-component/0.8.0/zk-archetype-component-0.8.0.pom
1K downloaded  (zk-archetype-component-0.8.0.pom)
Define value for property 'groupId': : org.test
Define value for property 'artifactId': : mycomps
Define value for property 'version': 1.0-SNAPSHOT:
Define value for property 'package': org.test: org.test.mycomps
Define value for property 'component-class': : Mylabel
Define value for property 'component-name': : mylabel
[INFO] Using property: zk-version-since = 5.0.6
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: org.test
artifactId: mycomps
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: org.test.mycomps
component-class: Mylabel
component-name: mylabel
zk-version-since: 5.0.6
Y:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 34 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Jul 28 16:27:55 CST 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/150M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Import Maven project into Eclipse

• [File] -> [Import] -> [Maven] --> [Existing Maven Projects]

  

• After this, the user should now get a new project in the Package explorer.