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If you need to install and start Apache Tomcat quickly, probably this article can help you.

1) Sun JDK 5 need to be installed. It can be installed from Debian repository with unstable software

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list following lines (if not present yet):

# for sun-java packages in unstable
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free

Update apt cache:

koba@alpha:~$ sudo apt-get update

Once in a while I need to make small java applications maybe for testing some library, maybe as helper applications. As for me the fastest way to do this, is use maven archetype mechanism. But new project creation command not very user friendly since it required several parameters that you need to remember (‘-DarchetypeGroupId’ or ‘-DgroupId’). As solution you can make small help script and put it into your projects folder.

As quick solution I make small shell script (new_project.sh) that can be used for fast start:

Maven is open source java build manager from Apache software foundation. It has a lot of interesting features including Project Object Model (POM) and extensible process Plugin framework.

One of standard and commonly used plugins is maven-site-plugin. It provides way to generate project documentation based on POM in form of web site. Starting from version 2.0-beta-5 it’s possible to create your own design (skin) for generated web site.

This blog record must be interesting for developers who already familiar with maven 2 and use it for development. I will try to describe basic steps how to make your own custom skin.