Once upon a time and long ago, I heard someone singing, Soft and low (Distant Melody - Peter Pan)

Thymeleaf Spring-MVC Maven Archetype aims to create a web application that uses Thymeleaf template engine and Spring Framework.

The main goal of Thymeleaf is to provide an elegant and well-formed way of creating HTML 5 templates. Its Standard and SpringStandard dialects allow you to create powerful natural templates, that can be correctly displayed by browsers and therefore work also as static prototypes.

You can read more about Thymeleaf at:

• Thymeleaf: http://www.thymeleaf.org
• HTML5 + CSS 3 Form Using Thymeleaf + Spring MVC tutorial: http://www.lordofthejars.com/2011/11/your-big-daddys-got-no-place-to-stay.html

When you create an application using this archetype, generated web application will be composed by two html templates in WEB-INF/views, one for showing a form using HTML5 and CSS3 and another one for listing inserted data.

Spring controllers are located in controller package.

Application is internationalized too using LocaleChangeInterceptor with en_US as default locale. Properties are in src/main/resources/locale folder.

And finally server-side validation is provided by using JSR-303 provider.

Versions of used jars are:

• Spring Framework: 3.0.5
• Thymeleaf: 1.1.2
• Hibernate-Validator: 4.1.0
• Slf4j: 1.5.10
• Servlet-api: 2.5
• JUnit: 4.9

You can install this archetype from source or from jar file:

From source:

mvn clean install

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local

From jar:

Download archetype from https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/lordofthejars/thymeleafarchetype/thymeleaf-spring-maven-archetype/1.0.0/thymeleaf-spring-maven-archetype-1.0.0.jar

and execute:

mvn install:install-file \ -DgroupId=com.lordofthejars \ -DartifactId=thymeleaf-spring-maven-archetype \ 

-Dversion=DOWNLOADED_VERSION \ -Dpackaging=jar 

-Dfile=PATH_TO_JAR_YOU_DOWNLOADED/thymeleaf-spring-maven-archetype-VERSION.jar

Maven repository is located at 

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/lordofthejars/thymeleafarchetype/thymeleaf-spring-maven-archetype

and source code is stored at  https://github.com/maggandalf/thymeleaf-spring-maven-archetype

For any question regarding of how to use this archetype or any issue/improvement, do not hesitate to contact me or open a new issue on github.

I wish this archetype can help you to start a new project using Thymeleaf template engine.

Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaGSocm5dc