JSF – First Application
To create a simple JSF application, we'll use maven-archetype-webapp
plugin. In example below, We'll create a maven based web application
project in C:\JSF folder.
Create Project
Let's open command console, go the C:\ < JSF directory
and execute the following mvn command.
C:\JSF<mvn archetype:create
-DgroupId=com.tutorialspoint.test
-DartifactId=helloworld
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp
Maven will start processing and will create the complete java web
application project structure.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'.
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Default Project
[INFO] task-segment: [archetype:create] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [archetype:create {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] Defaulting package to group ID: com.tutorialspoint.test
[INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp:
checking for updates from central
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project
from Old (1.x) Archetype: maven-archetype-webapp:RELEASE
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.tutorialspoint.test
[INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.tutorialspoint.test
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.tutorialspoint.test
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: helloworld
[INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: C:\JSF
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] project created from Old (1.x) Archetype in dir:
C:\JSF\helloworld
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 7 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Nov 05 16:05:04 IST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 12M/84M
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
Now go to C:/JSF directory. You'll see a java web application project
created named helloworld (as specified in artifactId). Maven uses a
standard directory layout as shown below:
Using above example, we can understand following key concepts
Folder Structure Description
helloworld contains src folder and pom.xml
src/main/wepapp contains WEB-INF folder and index.jsp page
src/main/resources it contains images/properties files (In above example,
we need to create this structure manually).
