Hi I am trying to create my first Maven project as guided in the "Maven GettingStarted Guide"
But I get the following errors. Any ideas? This is my first step after installing Maven202. c:>mvn -e archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Reactor build order: [INFO] Maven Quick Start Archetype [INFO] Maven Mojo Archetype [INFO] Unnamed - com.devx.greeter:greeter-web:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] Unnamed - com.devx.greeter:greeter:pom:1.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [WARNING] Cannot resolve plugin-mapping metadata for groupId: org.apache.maven.plugins - IGNORING. [WARNING] Cannot resolve plugin-mapping metadata for groupId: org.codehaus.mojo - IGNORING. [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin Reason: Error getting POM for 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' from the repository: Unable to read local cop y of metadata: Cannot read metadata from 'c:\MavenRepo\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-archetype-plugin\maven-metadata-central .xml': attribute value must start with quotation or apostrophe not s (position: TEXT seen ...</head>\r\n<body>\r\n<link rel=s ... @6:12) org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:LATEST [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Error resolving version for 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype -plugin': Unable to read the metadata file for artifact 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom': Error getting POM for 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' from the repository: Unable to read local copy of metadata: Cannot read metadata from 'c:\MavenRepo\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-archetype-plugin\maven-metadata-central.xml': attribute value must start with quotation or apostrophe not s (position: TEXT seen ...</head>\r\n<body>\r\n<link rel=s... @6:12) org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:LATEST
