eclipse

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: