Maven Archetype creation via Eclipse

I am willing to create an archetype which will be useful to create a lot of projects sharing the same architecture. I followed the maven guide and read some bloggers guides but even with these informations I am struggling.

I have some constraints for my projects :

• All the project code is in a package which must be something like com.ei.app.project (app and project are vars I would like to set during the project generation)
• I have dependencies I would like to be present in my POM when the project is generated
• I have some scripts file with data (paths, app name...) and I would like to set them according to the project parameters, and if it is possible add additional parameters.
• We don't use the official maven repo but set up another online repo. We have a strict security policy an whenever we have to add a lib into the repo it takes a lot of time for verifications.

How can I achieve this ? I tried several solutions but encountered a lot of errors. If you have a complete step-by-step guide in english or french that would be fantastic, but I would also like to understand how it works.

Many thanks for your help

Let me answer parts of your question.

From an example project, you can create an archetype by using archetype:create-from-project (https://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/create-from-project-mojo.html).

You can supply a property file that will be used to replace actual values (like 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT) with references (like $version). All filtered files will be treated as velocity templates so that you can use $-type replacement.

Your repository restriction may be problem because you probably need dozens of artifacts to make the archetype plugin run.