To help you get started quickly, you can invoke a Maven archetype to generate the initial outline of a Maven project (a Maven archetype is analogous to a project wizard). Because FABs do not require any special configuration (apart from the presence of a pom.xml file, which is always present in a Maven-generated JAR), you can use almost any Maven archetype, as long as the generated Maven project has the jar packaging type.

The following Maven archetypes are useful for generating Apache Camel projects:

For example, consider an archetype for building an Apache Camel project. The camel-archetype-blueprint archetype creates a project that demonstrates a simple Apache Camel route written in the XML DSL using the Blueprint injection framework. To generate a Maven project with the coordinates, GroupId:ArtifactId:Version, enter the following command:

mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.camel.archetypes
-DarchetypeArtifactId=camel-archetype-blueprint
-DarchetypeVersion=2.10.0.fuse-71-047
-DgroupId=GroupId
-DartifactId=ArtifactId
-Dversion=Version

	Note
	The arguments to the mvn command are shown on separate lines purely for the sake of readability. When you are entering the command at a command prompt, you must ensure that all of the parameters are on the same line.

The archetype creates a project in a new directory whose name is that of the specified artifact ID, ArtifactId. To build the FAB defined by the new project, open a command prompt, go to the project directory (that is, the directory containing the pom.xml file), and enter the following Maven command:

mvn install

The effect of this command is to compile all of the Java source files, to generate a FAB JAR under the ArtifactId/target directory, and then to install the generated JAR in the local Maven repository.