Geertjan's Netbeans Maven Post and Synchronicity
Geertjan posted a blog post about Netbeans and the wide array of Maven Archetypes this morning, I posted an almost identical post from an Eclipse perspective. This was an entirely unplanned coincidence, but it is a synchronicity that tells me that the usefulness of the archetype plugin is upon us, and that it is triggered by IDE integration.
m2eclipse Chapter, a Quick Survey of Archetypes (v0.9)
m2eclipse is more than just a simple plugin, it changes the way you'll create projects. Specifically, it will allow you to create projects from archetypes without having to type a command-line the size of a paragraph. I just updated the m2eclipse chapter and I included more details about the 88 available archetypes in the Maven repository (everything from AppFuse to Wicket).