Want to create a Java EE 7 application using Maven ?
mvn -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=webapp-javaee7 -DarchetypeVersion=0.1-SNAPSHOT -DarchetypeRepository=https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/snapshots/ -DgroupId=org.glassfish -DartifactId=javaee7-sample -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpackage=org.glassfish.javaee7-sample -Darchetype.interactive=false --batch-mode --update-snapshots archetype:generate
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[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
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[INFO] >>> maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom >>>
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[INFO] <<< maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom <<<
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[INFO] --- maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Generating project in Batch mode
[INFO] Archetype defined by properties
Downloading: https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/webapp-javaee7/0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded: https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/webapp-javaee7/0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml (786 B at 0.5 KB/sec)
Downloading: https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/webapp-javaee7/0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded: https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/webapp-javaee7/0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml (786 B at 2.0 KB/sec)
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[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Archetype: webapp-javaee7:0.1-SNAPSHOT
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[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: org.glassfish
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: javaee7-sample
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: org.glassfish.javaee7-sample
[INFO] Parameter: packageInPathFormat, Value: org/glassfish/javaee7-sample
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: org.glassfish.javaee7-sample
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: org.glassfish
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: javaee7-sample
[INFO] project created from Archetype in dir: /Users/arungup/code/workspaces/tmp/javaee7-sample
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 4.703s
[INFO] Finished at: Sat Feb 02 07:31:54 EET 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/125M
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That's it!
NetBeans Development Builds allows to create a Maven-based Java EE 7 web application now. wiki.netbeans.org/JavaEE7 provide a complete list of planned features. TOTD #199 provide some more details on the features currently working. Of course, this application will get deployed to GlassFish 4.