We are pleased to announce the Maven Genapp Plugin 2.3 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/genapp/

A collection of example projects showing how to use maven in different 
situations 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Added new property maven.genapp.basedir property. Fixes MPGENAPP-24. 
o Added property maven.genapp.repackage.diras base directory for 
  maven.genapp.repackage. Fixes MPGENAPP-23. 
o Added customization guide. Fixes MPGENAPP-20. Thanks to Miguel Griffa. 
o Added Velocity-based webapp template (named web-velocity). Fixes 
  MPGENAPP-19. Thanks to Miguel Griffa. 
o Use the project's name as display-name in web.xml. Fixes MPGENAPP-18. 
  Thanks to Archimedes Trajano. 
o Added Tapestry template. Fixes MPGENAPP-10. Thanks to Archimedes Trajano. 
o Added Struts with validation template. Fixes MPGENAPP-9. Thanks to 
  Archimedes Trajano. 
o Replace @PACKAGE@ by @NAME@ in Title in JSP files. Fixes MPGENAPP-8. Thanks 
  to Archimedes Trajano. 
o Added prompt for project root. Fixes MPGENAPP-3. Thanks to Sri Sankaran. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Make generated structure comply with maven standarts. Fixes MPGENAPP-21. 
o Make generated POMs conform to maven-project-3.xsd. Fixes MPGENAPP-22. 
o Using ${maven.home.local}instead of ${user.home}/.mavenfor templates. Fixes 
  MPGENAPP-17. 
o An error "Artifact strutstest-2.1.0.jar doesn't exist" is thrown by struts 
  projects generated by the plugin. Fixes MPGENAPP-12. Thanks to Filippo 
  Vitale. 

  Changes:

o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them 
  between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : commons-logging 
  v1.0.3 -> v1.0.4 Fixes MAVEN-1712.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://repo1.maven.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-genapp-plugin
  -Dversion=2.3

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-genapp-plugin-2.3.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Genapp Plugin development team