Watch this: 
http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/creating-a-simple-project-in-m2eclipse.html

And pick the webapp archteype.

On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:

> Pardon the dumb newbie question but I'm new to archetypes and am being driven 
> crazy by this device that is supposed to make my life simple.
> 
> OK, I've upgraded to Eclipse 3.7.  I've gotten the latest m2e and m2e-wtp.  I 
> want to play with a simple tutorial example first.  OK, this looks like a 
> good one: http://www.insaneprogramming.be/?p=140
> 
> First step the author recommends:
> 
>> 
>> We're going to start with a basic web application, which in my case means 
>> firing up Maven's mvn archetype:generate and choosing the simple webapp 
>> archetype. So now we have this:
>> 
>> .
>> |-- pom.xml
>> `-- src
>>    `-- main
>>        |-- resources
>>        `-- webapp
>>            |-- WEB-INF
>>            |   `-- web.xml
>>            `-- index.jsp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Evidently, the author thought it was too simple to provide the name of this 
> simple webapp archetype, but doing a little googling, I find that he must 
> mean maven-archetype-webapp from org.apache.maven.archetypes, which is 
> documented to produce the structure he's aiming for.
> 
> But lo and behold, I don't find this archetype in the list brought up by m2e. 
>  My company's Nexus repository supposedly mirrors maven central. So what 
> gives?  Why can't I find this SIMPLE archetype to build this SIMPLE project?  
> Why is this SIMPLE thing taking me all day?
> 
> <end-of-rant>
> 
> Seriously, I'd appreciate any help.  Has this thing been deprecated, removed, 
> or something?  How SHOULD I create a simple webapp from an archetype using 
> m2e?
> 
> 
> 
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Thanks,

Jason

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Thanks,

Jason

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Founder,  Apache Maven
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