newbie failed to create a Maven 2 project

[Guofeng Zhang]

Hi,

 

I am new to maven 2.

 

I download maven and following Maven in 5 Minutes to create a project

 mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app

but I got the following error message:

Error reading settings.xml: Unrecognised tag: 'active' (position:
START_TAG seen

 ...<profile>\r\n      <active>... @5:15)

  Line:   5

  Column: 15

 

How to solve it?  I use JDK 1.5_03, Maven 2.0.4

 

Thanks