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+Sling Servlet Archetype
+
+Maven archetype for Sling Launchpad Webapp applications.
+
+Getting Started
+===============
+
+This component uses a Maven 2 (http://maven.apache.org/) build
+environment. It requires a Java 5 JDK (or higher) and Maven (http://maven.apache.org/)
+2.0.7 or later. We recommend to use the latest Maven version.
+
+If you have Maven 2 installed, you can install the jar into your local Maven repository
+using the following command:
+
+    mvn install
+
+See the Maven 2 documentation for other build features.
+
+The latest source code for this component is available in the
+Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) source repository of
+the Apache Software Foundation. If you have Subversion installed,
+you can checkout the latest source using the following command:
+
+    svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/tooling/maven/archetypes/launchpad-webapp
+
+See the Subversion documentation for other source control features.
+
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
+    agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+    Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+    License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the
+    License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+    either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+    and limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
+        <artifactId>sling</artifactId>
+        <version>17</version>
+        <relativePath>../../../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+    <artifactId>sling-launchpad-webapp-archetype</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>maven-archetype</packaging>
+    <name>Sling Launchpad Webapp Archetype</name>
+    <description>Maven archetype for Sling Launchpad Webapp applications</description>
+
+    <scm>
+        <connection>scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/tooling/maven/archetypes/launchpad-webapp</connection>
+        <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/tooling/maven/archetypes/launchpad-webapp</developerConnection>
+        <url>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/sling/trunk/tooling/maven/archetypes/launchpad-webapp</url>
+    </scm>
+
+    <build>
+        <extensions>
+            <extension>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.archetype</groupId>
+                <artifactId>archetype-packaging</artifactId>
+                <version>2.0-alpha-4</version>
+            </extension>
+        </extensions>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-archetype-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.0-alpha-4</version>
+                <extensions>true</extensions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml b/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
+    agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+    Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+    License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the
+    License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+    either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+    and limitations under the License.
+-->
+<archetype-descriptor name="sling-launchpad-webapp">
+    <fileSets>
+        <fileSet filtered="true" encoding="UTF-8">
+            <directory>src/main/bundles</directory>
+            <includes>
+                <include>**/*.xml</include>
+            </includes>
+        </fileSet>
+        <fileSet filtered="false" encoding="UTF-8">
+            <directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
+            <includes>
+                <include>**/*.xml</include>
+            </includes>
+        </fileSet>
+        <fileSet filtered="true" encoding="UTF-8">
+            <directory>src/test/config</directory>
+            <includes>
+                <include>**/*.xml</include>
+                <include>**/*.properties</include>
+            </includes>
+        </fileSet>
+    </fileSets>
+</archetype-descriptor>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype.xml b/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
+    agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+    Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+    License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the
+    License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+    either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+    and limitations under the License.
+-->
+<archetype>
+    <id>sling-launchpad-webapp</id>
+    <resources>
+        <resource>src/main/bundles/list.xml</resource>
+        <resource>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</resource>
+    </resources>
+    <testResources>
+        <resource>src/test/config/sling.properties</resource>
+    </testResources>
+</archetype>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml b/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
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+#set( $symbol_dollar = '$' )
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
+    agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+    Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+    License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the
+    License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+    either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+    and limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>${groupId}</groupId>
+    <artifactId>${artifactId}</artifactId>
+    <version>${version}</version>
+    <packaging>war</packaging>
+    <name>${artifactId} Launchpad Webapp</name>
+    <description>${artifactId} Launchpad Webapp</description>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-launchpad-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.0.10</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>prepare-package-war</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>prepare-package</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <defaultBundleList>
+                        <version>6</version>
+                    </defaultBundleList>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <webResources>
+                        <resource>
+                            <directory>
+                                ${symbol_dollar}{project.build.directory}/launchpad-bundles
+                            </directory>
+                            <targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
+                        </resource>
+                    </webResources>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+        
+        <!--
+            this is to facilitate the easy invocation of the jetty plugin with
+            mvn jetty:run-war
+        -->
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>6.1.23</version>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+    </build>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
+            <artifactId>org.apache.sling.launchpad.base</artifactId>
+            <version>2.4.0</version>
+            <type>war</type>
+            <classifier>webapp</classifier>
+            <scope>runtime</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/main/bundles/list.xml b/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/main/bundles/list.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
+    agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+    Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+    License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the
+    License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+    either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+    and limitations under the License.
+-->
+<bundles>
+    <startLevel level="0">
+        <bundle>
+            <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+            <artifactId>org.apache.felix.fileinstall</artifactId>
+            <version>2.0.8</version>
+        </bundle>
+    </startLevel>
+</bundles>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<web-app version="2.4"
+         xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
+    <display-name>Sling Launchpad Web Application Archetype</display-name>
+
+    <servlet>
+        <display-name>Sling Servlet</display-name>
+        <servlet-name>sling</servlet-name>
+        <servlet-class>
+            org.apache.sling.launchpad.webapp.SlingServlet
+        </servlet-class>
+        
+        <!--
+        	Any init-params defined for the servlet will overwrite
+            the default settings in the repository.xml file.
+            
+            The most important init-param to be set here is the 
+            sling.home parameter defining where Sling will place
+            its files such as the bundle cache, logs, configuration,
+            etc.
+            
+            If the sling.home parameter is not set a default value is
+            set as ${user.dir}/sling/${context.path} where ${user.dir}
+            is the current working directory and ${context.path} is the
+            servlet context path with slashes replaced by underscores and
+            the root context represented as just a single underscore.
+            
+            Example: For Sling deployed in the root context, the default
+            sling.home would be sling/_. For Sling deployed in the context
+            /sling/i1, the default sling.home would be sling/_sling_i1.
+        -->  
+        <!--  
+        <init-param>
+        	<param-name>sling.home</param-name>
+        	<param-value> Enter Path Here </param-value>
+        </init-param>
+        -->
+        <load-on-startup>100</load-on-startup>
+    </servlet>
+
+    <!-- Default Mapping for the Context -->
+    <servlet-mapping>
+        <servlet-name>sling</servlet-name>
+        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
+    </servlet-mapping>
+
+    <!-- Overwrite Mappings which may be present in default web.xml files -->
+    <servlet-mapping>
+        <servlet-name>sling</servlet-name>
+        <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
+    </servlet-mapping>
+    
+</web-app>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/config/sling.properties b/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/config/sling.properties
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+#    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
+#    agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information
+#    regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+#    Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+#    License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the
+#    License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+#    either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+#    and limitations under the License.
+#set( $symbol_dollar = '$' )
+felix.fileinstall.dir=${symbol_dollar}{basedir}/src/test/config/fileinstall
+org.osgi.framework.startlevel.beginning=35