Re: [starter-dev] Maven Archetype: groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine Not

[Reza Rahman <reza_rahman@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeyvison,

Bazlur fixed the issue and I have tested it. Can we urgently have a
release of the Archetype and UI please? This will minimize disruption
for users.

Thanks,

Reza

On 9/28/2024 7:47 AM, Reza Rahman wrote:
> Bazlur,
>
> Starting a parallel thread. Do you want to just replace that
> functionality with vanilla Java or vanilla Groovy? Maybe it's a bad
> idea to have that dependency anyway? It would not actually be that
> complex and it is always good to have one less external thing to
> depend on (case in point maybe). I ask since you are actually the
> original author of the code. Alternatively, you can see if you can
> figure out a fix?
>
> Really need to get some sleep now. I somehow saw your Slack message in
> the middle of the night and checked that the CI build has actually
> been broken for the same reason.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Reza
>
> On 9/28/2024 7:29 AM, Reza Rahman wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > I am writing on behalf of the official Jakarta EE Starter project:
> > https://start.jakarta.ee. We make use of Maven Archetypes in the
> > Starter under the hood.
> >
> > We are pretty dependent on Groovy and
> > use groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine for some critical functionality:
> > https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/starter/blob/ca9b5028b7fe3b47ecf4b5e5c22e89bc941e99a0/archetype/src/main/resources/META-INF/archetype-post-generate.groovy#L144.
> >
> > A few days ago we noticed that the Archetype is suddenly broken with
> > the following error: unable to resolve class
> > groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine. This seems to coincide with the
> > 3.3.0 release of maven-archetype-plugin. Any idea what is going on
> > and how to fix this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Reza