Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
archetype:add-archetype-metadata Inject any plugin-specific artifact metadata to the project's artifact, for subsequent installation and deployment. The first use-case for this is to add the LATEST metadata (which is plugin-specific) for shipping alongside the plugin's artifact.
archetype:crawl Crawl a Maven 2 repository (filesystem, not HTTP) and creates a catalog file.
archetype:create Deprecated. Please use the generate mojo instead.
archetype:create-from-project Creates an archetype from the current project.
archetype:generate Generates a new project from an archetype.
archetype:help Display help information on maven-archetype-plugin.
Call 
 mvn archetype:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>
to display parameter details.
archetype:integration-test Execute the archetype integration tests.
archetype:jar No description.
archetype:update-local-catalog Updates the local catalog

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 2.0.7
JDK 1.4
Memory No minimum requirement.
Disk Space No minimum requirement.

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-archetype-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.0-alpha-5-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-archetype-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.0-alpha-5-SNAPSHOT</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"