Setting Up A New Web Application Using Eclipse, Maven, Ant and Tomcat

Create a new application structure using maven

mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.zeltov.appstore -DartifactId=appstore2 -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp

Create Eclipse project

mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true

In Eclipse import as a maven project

Modify the pom.xml file:

 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
   <version>${spring-version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
   <version>${spring-version}</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>taglibs</groupId>
   <artifactId>standard</artifactId>
   <version>${taglibs-standard-version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
   <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
   <version>${jstl-version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
   <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
   <version>${servlet-api-version}</version>
   <scope>provided</scope>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 <properties>

  <spring-version>2.5.6</spring-version>
  <junit-version>4.1</junit-version>
  <jstl-version>1.2</jstl-version>
  <taglibs-standard-version>1.1.2</taglibs-standard-version>
  <servlet-api-version>2.5</servlet-api-version>
 </properties>

 <build>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.2</version>
    <configuration>
     <source>1.6</source>
     <target>1.6</target>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>info.jtrac</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-antprops-plugin</artifactId>
   </plugin>
  </plugins>
 </build>
 <pluginRepositories>
  <pluginRepository>
   <id>jtrac.info</id>
   <url>http://j-trac.sourceforge.net/repository</url>
  </pluginRepository>
 </pluginRepositories>

Next Run an ant command to generate the jar dependencies property file

mvn antprops:generate  

To download mvn dependencies with sources:

mvn dependency:sources

Maven Ant Integration Tutorial by Peter Thomas great way to do dependency management and use ant at the same time

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