ArchetypeCatalog

This is a reference for the Archetype Catalog descriptor.

These are standard catalog files which contain information about Archetypes so that users can be presented with a list of archetypes from any number of catalogs to generate new projects.

The Archetype Plugin knows by default its internal catalog. It also knows about the local and remote catalogs:

• local represents the ~/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml catalog file,
• remote represents the http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml catalog file.

The Archetype Plugin can also read catalogs from filesystem/HTTP by providing the path/URL of a catalog file or of a directory containing an archetype-catalog.xml file.

<archetype-catalog xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/archetype-catalog/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/archetype-catalog/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/archetype-catalog-1.0.0.xsd">
  <archetypes>
    <archetype>
      <groupId/>
      <artifactId/>
      <version/>
      <repository/>
      <description/>
    </archetype>
  </archetypes>
</archetype-catalog>