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

[Reza Rahman <reza_rahman@xxxxxxxx>]

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