maven archetype property substitution

maven-3, maven-archetype

Solution

Your problem is caused by `required property` loading order. Maven loads every custom `required property` in alphabetical order. You probably cant change it. But there are 2 ways which will solve your problem:

Renaming ur variables like this:

`"0_name"`

`"1_groupId"`

Now it will ask you about name firstly.

Use full maven command, passing only name parameter

`mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=?? -DarchetypeArtifactId=?? -DgroupId=?? -DartifactId=?? -Dversion=?? -Dpackage=?? -Dname=??`

Replace `??` with valid parameters

Hope it will helps you.

EDIT: now i see an `asked time`. Pretty offtopic but maybe it will help someone else

Problem

Anybody knows is it possible to make substitution for default value of one `requredProperty` to another in archetype-metadata.xml ? So, I try to do something like this: ``` <requiredProperty key="name"/> <requiredProperty key="groupId"> <defaultValue>com.mycompamy.${name}</defaultValue> </requiredProperty> ``` But when I start to generate project from artifact in interactive mode, maven asks me about `groupId` property first. But not for `name` as I expected. Is it possible to change this behaviour?

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