Allow the name of the main application class to be customised

[wilkinsona]

I'd like to be able to specify the name of the main application class when creating a new project. Currently, after creating a project, I have to rename Application.java to something that better describes the application. This would also encourage me to be less lazy and avoid having tens of Application (n) run configurations in Eclipse.

[snicoll]

okay cool. Any idea how we could avoid one more field in there?

[wilkinsona]

Reuse the artifact or name field with appropriate reformatting? For example foo-bar would become FooBar. That's not really what I had in mind originally, but, looking at a number of projects in my current workspace, it would have worked well for a large majority of them.

[snicoll]

reusing the artifact sounds good, yes.

[dsyer]

FooBarApplication maybe? Defaults to DemoApplication in that case.

[wilkinsona]

FooBarApplication maybe? Defaults to DemoApplication in that case.

+1

[dsyer]

I would prefer to use the name (not artifact) though since that's what comes first in the Eclipse import and it's the only one you have to change to get it to work with multiple projects in the same workspace.

[snicoll]

name can have spaces and funky characters, it's not really an "id" but what is being displayed when the module is build (from a Maven standpoint). didn't get your last sentence with Eclipse (but that's not surprising :) )

[dsyer]

The name can be sanitized though (and we probably don't validate the artifact id anyway). I think that Andy's suggestion is fine (remove whitespace and special characters and Camel case it).

[snicoll]

for your information, changing the artifact-id changes the name of the zip file (or the name of the directory where the project is stored via spring init if you use the extract property). That makes sense to use a different field for this. I'll have a look

[snicoll]

Okay the changes are live on staging

@wilkinsona, @dsyer could you please give that a try. A second look on the commit would be nice as well. Thanks!