Creating a new AndroMDA 3.5-SNAPSHOT project

This will detail the basic steps to create a new Andromda 3.5-SNAPSHOT project This assumes you have maven 3.x installed and java 1.7 1 - Create a new maven project from the maven archetypes:

 mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mdahatter.androtest -DartifactId=sampleapplication -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT  

2 - Accept all of the defaults to create a new project 3 - Navigate into the newly created project folder and edit the pom.xml 4 - Add the following section after the dependencies section:

 <build>  
   <defaultGoal>compile</defaultGoal>  
   <plugins>  
     <plugin>  
       <groupId>org.andromda.maven.plugins</groupId>  
       <artifactId>andromdapp-maven-plugin</artifactId>  
       <version>3.5-SNAPSHOT</version>  
     </plugin>  
   </plugins>  
 </build>  

5 - edit the /conf/settings.xml file in your maven install directory %M2_HOME% add the following section:

 <profile>  
   <id>default</id>  
   <activation>  
     <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>  
   </activation>  
   <repositories>  
     <repository>  
       <id>sonatype</id>  
       <name>Sonatype Repository</name>  
       <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public</url>  
       <snapshots>  
         <enabled>true</enabled>  
       </snapshots>  
     </repository>  
     <repository>  
       <id>jboss</id>  
       <name>JBoss Repository</name>  
       <url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>  
     </repository>  
   </repositories>  
   <pluginRepositories>  
     <pluginRepository>  
       <id>sonatype</id>  
       <name>Sonatype Repository</name>  
       <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public</url>  
       <snapshots>  
         <enabled>true</enabled>  
       </snapshots>  
     </pluginRepository>  
   </pluginRepositories>  
 </profile>  

6 - From this folder run mvn without any arguements. This will download the AndroMDA 3.5-SNAPSHOT plugin for use. 7 - You can delete the folder you just created, you do not need that anymore. The AndroMDA 3.5-SNAPSHOT plugin is now in your mvn repository. 8 - Run the following command to create a new Andromda project:

 mvn org.andromda.maven.plugins:andromdapp-maven-plugin:3.5-SNAPSHOT:generate