[MARCHETYPES-37] The POM of generated projects should have xml prolog/header specifying encoding

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3
• Component/s: Maven Archetype Archetype, Maven Plugin Archetype, Maven Plugin Site Archetype, Maven Portlet Archetype, Maven Quickstart Archetype, Maven Simple J2EE Archetype, Maven Simple Project Archetype, Maven Simple Site Archetype, Maven Site Archetype, Maven Webapp Archetype
• Environment: n/a
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Anders Hammar
• Created: 14/Jan/11 03:16
• Updated: 18/Feb/18 19:15
• Resolved: 18/Feb/18 03:29

Description

The POM generated by the archetypes should have an xml prolog/header specifying encoding. For anyone using non-ascii chars this is important as it will ensure that chars are handled correctly.

I've attached a patch for this. Changes are relative the top level archetypes project trunk.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MARCHETYPES-39 xml definition in the stock pom.xml
• relates to: MARCHETYPES-52 rework maven-archetype-simple, which is currently not an archetype, to a real archetype