Maven Archetype Plugin

Struts 2 Maven Archetype

The Blank Archetype (struts2-archetype-blank)

The Starter Archetype (struts2-archetype-starter)

Compared to the former, it adds more features like “Spring Integration”.

The Blank Convention Archetype (struts2-archetype-convention)

Features like “Convention-based validation”, “GAE aware”.

Creating an Application Using a Maven Archetyp

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mvn archetype:generate -B \
                       -DgroupId=tutorial \
                       -DartifactId=tutorial \
                       -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.struts \
                       -DarchetypeArtifactId=struts2-archetype-blank \
                       -DarchetypeVersion=<version>

If the above command will fail because of missing archetypes in central repository, you can try to use staging repository like below

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mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://people.apache.org/builds/struts/<version>/m2-staging-repository/