FYI,
When using the archetypes for cocoon-3, I noticed that the <version> is generated like <version>1-SNAPSHOT</version>. This is the case for parent-archetype and for web and block it does the same for the <parent> version. Also to be able to use the archetypes I had to modify the version of the maven-archetype-plugin to "2.0-alpha-4", whereas the docs mention "1.0-alpha-7". mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-4:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.cocoon.archetype-block -DarchetypeArtifactId=cocoon-archetype-block -DarchetypeVersion=3.0.0-alpha-1 -DgroupId=com.mycompany -DartifactId=myArtifact Cheers, Robby Pelssers