Using Maven Archetype to Create New Applications Based on a Reference Architecture

Recently, I was involved in a project composed by several Java applications. All of these applications followed a layered architecture pattern specified in an architecture reference, previously discussed and documented by software architects.

However, each time I had to create a new project based on that architecture reference I had a lot of difficulties because these Java applications still use the old web.xml and a long and complex Spring application context xml file with a lot of common beans and properties that had to be changed for each new application.

Therefore, in order to have a standard between all of…