Creating a Simple Maven Project

1 Generating a simple project with Maven and Eclipse

To generate a project with maven from command line:

 mvn -B archetype:generate \
  -DgroupId=com.company.application \
  -DartifactId=project \
  -Dpackage=com.company.application \
  -Dversion=1.0 
  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart \

• the maven command mvn archetype:generate executes the generate goal of the archetype plugin
• an archetype is defined as a "model from which similar thing are patterned; a prototype"
• when you run the archetype:generate goal you pass the goal parameter: archetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
• you can select the maven archetypes that fits your purpose
• the maven-archetype-quickstart is the most basic archetype to create a java project