accumulo-core-archetype

A Maven archetype with the basic settings to get up and running with Accumulo

Purpose

This archetype creates a maven project structure with

1. A pom.xml with the required dependencied defined to get a connection to Accumulo up and running.
2. A sample App.java with simple examples of common accumulo operations (create table, read, write ...)

Installation

To install this in your maven repository, clone accumulo-core.archetype to your local machine and install it with maven.

mvn clean install

Use

After installing the archetype into your local maven repository, to create a new project using the archetype use the following maven command.

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.accumulo -DarchetypeArtifactId=accumulo-core-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

Post Project Creation

After you create a new project using the archetype there are some modifications you must make to reflect your environment.

1. First you will need to open up pom.xml and update the zookeeper,hadoop and accumulo versions to match the versions you are using on your system
2. Second you will need to open App.java and update the variables for, zookeepers, instanceName, userId, and password.