Plugin documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
archetype:generate Generates sample project from archetype.
archetype:update-local-catalog Updates the local catalog
archetype:help Display help information on 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' plugin. Call 'mvn archetype:help -Ddetail=true' to display all details.
archetype:create Deprecated. The archetype creation goal looks for an archetype with a given groupId, artifactId, and version and retrieves it from the remote repository. Once the archetype is retrieved, it is then processed against a set of user parameters to create a working Maven project.
archetype:crawl Crawl a Maven 2 repository (Filesystem, not HTTP) and creates a catalog file.
archetype:create-from-project Creates sample archetype from current project.
archetype:integration-test Execute the archetype integration tests.
archetype:jar No 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.

System Requirements

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

Maven 2.0
JDK 1.4
Memory No minimum requirement.
Disk Space No minimum requirement.

Usage

You could run 'mvn -up' to get the latest version of this plugin, or 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-3<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-3<version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>
For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"