JBehave Archetypes

There are different archetypes available for JBehave, lets look at some of them...

Archetype 1: jbehave-simple-archetype

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Command to download the project via mvn:

mvn archetype:generate

-DarchetypeGroupId=org.jbehave

-DarchetypeArtifactId=jbehave-simple-archetype

-DarchetypeVersion=3.9.5

-DarchetypeRepository= https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/releases/org/jbehave/jbehave-simple-archetype/

Comments on this archetype:

Change to the latest version
This is the most simplest of the project structures that we have with jbehave. Its the default one that I use, and gradually 'build-out' as the project evolves.
This does not have the selenium jars by default
You can grow this project by adding maven dependencies in the pom.xml
You don’t need a selenium-only archetype because we are not going to work on a selenium-only framework, we need a simple archetype to start with, and build it as we grow.

Archetype 2: jbehave-web-selenium-java-spring-archetype

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Command to download the project via mvn:

mvn archetype:generate

-DarchetypeGroupId=org.jbehave.web

-DarchetypeArtifactId=jbehave-web-selenium-java-spring-archetype

-DarchetypeVersion=3.5.5

-DarchetypeRepository= https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/releases/org/jbehave/web/jbehave-web-selenium-java-spring-archetype/

Comments on this archetype:

This has details of implementation for etsy, and is not a blank project like the simple archetype.
The implementation appears complex like that of LT
It does not seem to recognise the steps, so something is missing. Who knows if its due to the project being 3 years old!
This does not have the selenium jars by default
There are 3 different 'Stories' file which might be helpful in figuring out the different configurations for jbehave.
Also, though the LT framework had jbehave core+web, selenium, fluentlenium, spring, hamcrest and hibernate, you dont have to adopt all of these right now in your framework, because it would be too time consuming to do a PoC with all these. And even then, the LT framework did not have any data-driving capabilities!
Spring is a framework that provides APIs to avoid low level coding, for example connecting to a db.
Hibernate is a framework for mapping RDBMS or DBs like Sybase, MS SQL Server, etc; where the db tables and entities are exposed as objects that can be used in java code.

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