RichFaces Portlet Archetype

I just finished creating a Maven archetype for the RichFaces portlet using the JBoss Portlet Bridge. An archetype basically gives you a empty project shell with all of the proper config files and package names that are custom to your project. It comes packaged with a simple demo of the RichFaces ajax repeater code.

From the command line run:

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.portletbridge.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=richfaces-basic
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT -DgroupId=org.whatever.project -DartifactId=myprojectname
-DremoteRepositories=http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/

Navigate to the newly created project folder and run mvn install - now you are ready to deploy the war file located in the target directory.