In JBoss Central, when an Enterprise runtime is selected for any given Archetype, we check if the Red Hat Enterprise repository is available by trying to resolve a redhat version of org.jboss.spec:jboss-javaee-web-6.0. Then, if some essential dependencies are defined in stacks.yaml, we also try to resolve these. If the dependencies can't be resolved, a warning message appears with a link allowing users to add the RH repo to their Maven settings.xml

Upcoming archetypes will have the Red Hat repository already added to the generated pom.xml, so adding it to settings.xml becomes unnecessary. However, we'd get false positive warning by trying to resolve org.jboss.spec:jboss-javaee-web-6.0 from the settings.xml before generating the archetype.

Our goal is to remove the hardcoded check from MavenArtifactHelper and, when necessary, declare org.jboss.spec:jboss-javaee-web-6.0 as an essential dependency in stacks.yaml for old archetypes that do not add the RH repo to the gen'd pom.xml