I just finished downloading maven 2 and am now trying to create a new project using the example described on the getting started page. I am able to execute mvn -version with no problems, however when I attempt to execute
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app I get the following error: [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could not be retri eved from repository: central due to an error: Error transferring file [INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exi st or no valid version could be found [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 22 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Mon Jul 31 12:51:57 EDT 2006 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Based on the above message I would have expected the archtype plugin to already be downloaded. BTW, I am behind a firewall which uses a policy file (not sure how to configure this in the proxy section) Thanks for any help. Mike
