Reflow Maven Skin

Bootstrap themes from Bootswatch

Select a free theme for your website from an excellent gallery at Bootswatch. Out of the box support for these and other custom Bootstrap themes.

Page layouts

Write plain text in Markdown or APT, then set different layouts to your page sections.

Modern skin

Reflow skin uses modern components from Bootstrap and other libraries, upgrades Maven generated site and provides further enhancements.

New Velocity tools

The skin adds a library of new Velocity tools to use in your own Maven template: rewrite HTML code, support per-page configurations and more!

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To use Reflow skin in your Maven site, add it to site.xml:

<skin>
  <groupId>lt.velykis.maven.skins</groupId>
  <artifactId>reflow-maven-skin</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.1</version>
</skin>

Furthermore, the skin requires accompanying Reflow Velocity tools as a dependency as well as Apache Velocity 1.7. Add them as dependencies to maven-site-plugin.

Full usage instructions »

Responsive layouts

Write your pages in APT or Markdown, then restructure them using Reflow skin layouts:

Carousel - spinning image slideshow
Thumbnails - showcase your image gallery
Columns - multi-column text
Sidebar - wrap into a sidebar
Body - text as it has been written

Partition the page into sections using <hr/> elements, and define preferred layouts for each section in site.xml. Reflow skin is responsive thanks to Bootstrap, so the layouts will be rearranged automatically for readability on small screens.

Themes

The skin theme can be switched easily: just select a Bootstrap theme to give an easy makeover for your Maven site.

Default - use the default Bootstrap theme
Bootswatch - select an excellent free theme from Bootswatch
Custom - create your own Bootstrap theme with existing tools

Need to change something? Extend the skin with custom site.css file in your project, and reuse it for multi-module site.

How to select a theme »

Configure

Reflow is very configurable: many features and components can be disabled, and optional enhancements enabled using configuration in site.xml:

Table of contents - display ToC for each page: top bar or sidebar
Menus - filter Maven menus and select what to display in top or bottom navigation
Code highlight - syntax colouring for code snippets
Image preview - display images in pop-ups
… and more

Check out the documentation for all the features. Every configuration option can be applied on a per-page basis!

Velocity tools

Reflow skin provides custom Velocity tools library to be used in Maven site template:

SkinConfigTool - convenient access to custom configuration options (global and per-page)
HtmlTool - query and modify HTML text
URITool - use Java URIs in the template

To enable these tools for any skin, add reflow-velocity-tools dependency to maven-site-plugin in the POM.