Just in from the fixed it myself dep't... It seems by generating the 5.3.7 archetype with maven from the command line & changing this 1 system property at the bottom of the pom.xml to <tapestry-release-version>5.4-beta-2</tapestry-release-version> & commenting out the following dependency near the top of the pom.xml...
<!--<dependency>--> <!--<groupId>org.apache.tapestry</groupId>--> <!--<artifactId>tapestry-yuicompressor</artifactId>--> <!--<version>${tapestry-release-version}</version>--> <!--</dependency>--> I don't care about compressing assets at this point. So that's fine. & adding the slf4j binding dependency of your choice. i picked the log4j one. <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId> <version>1.7.5</version> </dependency> then you can mvn:run the jetty plugin & walla, the 5.4-beta-2 quickstart is up and running. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jon Williams <williams.jonat...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:58 PM Subject: Tapestry 5.4-beta-2 quickstart app To: Tapestry users <users@tapestry.apache.org> Hi, I want to: mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://tapestry.apache.org for *5.4-beta-2* tapestry which, I've found sources for the archetype here: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/tapestry/quickstart/5.4-beta-2/ Is it possible to generate the 5.4-beta-2 archetype simply from the command line, like something similar to the above mentioned mvn command (that only currently works for 5.3.7 Tapestry & older)? Sorry if this is a short coming in my maven knowledge and has nothing to do with tapestry. Even so, this seems like knowledge other tapestry users would find useful. thanks Jon