What?

This is a Maven Archetype to create a new maven project or module covering a projects architecture documentation.

https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-archetypes.html

The archetype will create a ready to go module containing the arc42 template
documents and the module pom.xml creating an html and pdf output.

Why?

Available Archetypes get lack of pdf export or plantuml support.

How?

Build locally

mvn install

Use

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=com.kiwigrid \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=arc42-archetype-en \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0 \
  -DgroupId=org.sample \
  -DartifactId=documentation

The generated module will look like

./documentation
|-- pom.xml
'-- src
    '-- main
        '-- doc
            '-- arc42
                '-- 01
                    '-- ...adoc
                   ...
                 '-- 12
                     '-- ...adoc
                 '-- images
                     '--  logo.png
                 '-- arc42.adoc
                 '-- config.adoc

Content

• arc42.adoc the main document to render.

• config.adoc document settings defaults

• logo.png the default document logo

• 01 …​ 12 the arc42 template chapter from the "Golden Master" (github)

  • the chapters are organized as sub folder instead on file name prefixes only

• images the common document images

• pom.xml covers the build settings with the major settings

<project ... >
    ...
    <name>your project title</name>
    ...
    <build>
        <plugins>
            ... <!--(1)-->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
                <artifactId>asciidoctor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                ...
                <configuration>
                    ...
                    <attributes>
                        ...
                        <document-name>your documentation title</document-name> <!--(2)-->
                        <document-logo>logo.png</document-logo> <!--(3)-->
                    </attributes>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>asciidoc-to-html</id>
                        ...
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>asciidoc-to-pdf</id>
                        ...
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

1. copies the image resources

2. the documentation title is initialized with the project name

3. the documentation header page logo