CreateMavenDirs.java

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Date;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.SecurityException;

public class CreateMavenDirs{
    public boolean createMavenDirs(String filename) throws IOException, SecurityException{
        File newFile = null;
        FileWriter newFileWriter = null;
        BufferedWriter newBufferedWriter = null;
        Long timestamp = new Date().getTime();
        boolean status = true;

        String[] listOfFiles = {"LICENSE.txt", "NOTICE.txt", "README.txt", "pom.xml"};
        String[] listOfDirs = {"src/main/assembly","src/main/config","src/main/filters","src/main/java","src/main/resources/META-INF","src/main/webapp/WEB-INF","src/site","src/test/filters","src/test/java","src/test/resources",};
        String projectName = filename + "_" + timestamp;
        String groupID="com.hostname";
        String projectVersion="1.0";
        String pomFill="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<project>\n\t<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>\n\t<groupId>" + groupID + "." + projectName + "</groupId>\n\t<artifactId>" + projectName + "</artifactId>\n\t<name>${artifactId}</name>\n\t<version>" + projectVersion + "</version>\n</project>";

        // Create the main project directory
        newFile = new File(projectName);
        status = newFile.mkdir();

        // Create all of the subdirectories
        for(String dir : listOfDirs){
            newFile = new File(projectName + "/" + dir);
            status = newFile.mkdirs();
        }

        // Create all of the files
        for(String file : listOfFiles){
            newFile = new File(projectName + "/" + file);
            status = newFile.createNewFile();
        }

        // Populate the pom.xml file
        newFileWriter = new FileWriter(projectName + "/pom.xml");
        newBufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(newFileWriter);
        newBufferedWriter.write(pomFill);
        newBufferedWriter.flush();
        newBufferedWriter.close();

        return status;
    }
}