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In order to simplify setting up such an automated workflow we provide maven archetypes to help with setting up maven projects to build plugins and assemble servers. As an example we'll describe setting up such a workflow for the liferay 4.4.1 portal. Note that this is two steps removed from a description of how to deploy liferay on geronimo, and one step removed from a description of how to build plugins for the liferay portal. For a completed example of such a workflow see the roller plugins at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/plugins/roller/trunk

Notes:

1. The archetypes are not included in geronimo 2.1 but the snapshots should be readily availableDue to maven lifecycle improvements in the car-maven-plugin the assembly artifact only generates poms that work with Geronimo 2.1.1-SNAPSHOT or later. The archetypes are currently available only as snapshots from branches/2.1 and trunk.
2. Maven tends to strip out all comments from the new pom.xml so a pom.sample.xml is included that has more comments on how to set up the pom.xml for common situations.
3. Archetypes use some attributes (groupId, version) of parent projects when they exist. The instructions use this: for standalone use you may need to supply more command line options.
4. Some of this would not be necessary given a project built with maven in the first place
5. As of writing, the server starts (given enough memory) but the liferay portal doesn't show up. Hopefully we'll figure out why soon.

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