Scaffolding of new services "activator new frond-end lagom-frontend-java"

[myfear]

I was searching for a quick way to add a new service module to an existing example.
Copy and pasting isn't exactly what I was looking for. Maybe there can be an easy template/scaffolding mechanism to support a command like this:

activator new frond-end lagom-frontend-java

which adds the required module definition to the build.sbt, required plugins and creates the directory structure?

[myfear]

Not an issue.

[McPringle]

@myfear, why did you close this issue? We were trying Lagom today at the Hackergarten Basel with five people and get really irritated how much code we have to copy/paste/edit manually to create a new service. We are working with Maven and IntelliJ IDEA. What is your preferred way of creating a new service?

[jroper]

We're going to look at whether atomist rug can help here, we think it probably can.

[Fabszn]

Hi,

I created this lagom's plugin https://github.com/Fabszn/scaffolding-plugin-lagom

Aim of this plugin is exactly the needs that you describ

[McPringle]

Hi @jroper, at the Hackergarten we were talking about Lazybones.
Hi @Fabszn, unfortunately we are using Maven, not SBT.

[Fabszn]

Hi @McPringle, thanks for your answer..
What do you think about same plugin for Maven?

[jroper]

I had a go at using Maven archetypes to add a new service - they do support updating projects, however the support is incredibly buggy, not at all well documented, and I found for what we needed, it was completely useless.

One nice thing about Atomist Rug is it should work for both Maven and sbt.

[Fabszn]

Oki

[McPringle]

At the Hackergarten Basel we have a few people with Lazybones know-how. It is a very easy to configure project creation tool based on templates and is build system independent. I can suggest to create a service template at the next meeting in February (it will be announced in our Meetup.com group soon). I don't know atomist rug, so Lazybones is my favourite.

[ignasi35]

Hi @McPringle, in a recent meetup our colleague @tommpy worked on an atomist-lagom PoC (https://github.com/tommpy/lagom-scala-atomist).

[tommpy]

My brief experiment with atomist showed a lot of promise. I was more focussed on the scala version, but actually atomist has much better support for java and maven. It should be pretty easy to do what you need.

It would be great to get a collection of rugs which can manipulate lagom projects.