This is the command given in the documentation mvn -B -e -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=netbeans-platform-app-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.1 -DarchetypeRepository=http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 -DgroupId=org.kleint -DartifactId=milos -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackage=org.kleint.milos -Dcluster=milos -Dnetbeans-install=/opt/netbeans -Dbrandingtoken=milos org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-3:create
This does not find the archetype jar. If I change the archetypeRepository to snapshots.repository.codehause.org and the archetype version to 1.1-SNAPSHOT as below I get the error shown. mvn -B -e -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=netbeans-platform-app-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.1-SNAPSHOT -DarchetypeRepository=http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/ -DgroupId=org.kleint -DartifactId=milos -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackage=org.kleint.milos -Dcluster=milos -Dnetbeans-install=/opt/netbeans-6.1 -Dbrandingtoken=milos org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-3:create [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Maven Default Project [INFO] task-segment: [org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-3:create] (aggregator-style) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Setting property: classpath.resource.loader.class => 'org.codehaus.plexus.velocity.ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader'. [INFO] Setting property: velocimacro.messages.on => 'false'. [INFO] Setting property: resource.loader => 'classpath'. [INFO] Setting property: resource.manager.logwhenfound => 'false'. [INFO] [archetype:create] [WARNING] This goal is deprecated. Please use mvn archetype:generate instead [INFO] Defaulting package to group ID: org.kleint [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Using following parameters for creating OldArchetype: netbeans-platform-app-archetype:1.1-SNAPSHOT [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: org.kleint [INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: org.kleint [INFO] Parameter: package, Value: org.kleint [INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: milos [INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /home/sid/workspace/myabc/client [INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error creating from archetype Embedded error: The META-INF/maven/archetype.xml descriptor cannot be found. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Error creating from archetype at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:583) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:512) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:482) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:227) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error creating from archetype at org.apache.maven.archetype.mojos.MavenArchetypeMojo.execute(MavenArchetypeMojo.java:244) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:451) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558) ... 16 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.archetype.old.ArchetypeDescriptorException: The META-INF/maven/archetype.xml descriptor cannot be found. at org.apache.maven.archetype.old.DefaultOldArchetype.createArchetype(DefaultOldArchetype.java:193) at org.apache.maven.archetype.mojos.MavenArchetypeMojo.execute(MavenArchetypeMojo.java:229) ... 18 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Fri Oct 31 16:47:59 GMT+05:30 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/81M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sid
