The archetypes (such as maven-archetype-quickstart) are now in group org.apache.maven.archetypes (with an 's').
From mvn archetype:create, I get:
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. GroupId: org.apache.maven.archetype ArtifactId: maven-archetype-quickstart Version: RELEASE Reason: Unable to determine the release version Try downloading the file manually from the project website. Then, install it using the command: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.archetype -DartifactId=m aven-archetype-quickstart \ -Dversion=RELEASE -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file org.apache.maven.archetype:maven-archetype-quickstart:jar:RELEASE I have all of archetype build from source locally. To get it to work, I have to add -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes to the mvn archetype:create command line. The archetype plugin expects them to be in group org.apache.maven.archetype (no 's'). To reproduce: rm -rf $M2_REPO/org/apache/maven/archetype rm -rf $M2_REPO/org/apache/maven/archetypes cd ~/svn/maven/archetype; mvn install cd /temp mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=myapp -- Wendy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]