create POM with junit 4

Question

I use Maven 3.0.4 and want to have junit 4 by default.

My projects are created with the command :
$>mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=my.group.id -DartifactId=m

Answer 1

A couple things:

archetype:create is deprecated by archetype:generate; please use generate, it's interchangeable with create in your example.

As for a solution, I'd say the simplest thing to do is generate your project, edit the pom to have the correct junit version; and then from within your project run:

mvn archetype:create-from-project 

Which will create an archetype based on your modifications, you simply need to install this with:

cd target/generated-sources/archetype/
mvn install

Now you can create new maven projects with this new archetype as you like with:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=my.group.id -DartifactId=newArtifact -DpackageName=my.package.name -DarchetypeArtifactId=myArtifactId-archetype -DarchetypeGroupId=my.group.id

Hopefully this helps.