In the main tutorial located here: http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html
The very first step fails: mvn archetype:generate \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \ -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \ -DartifactId=my-app With this error message: [INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode [INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0) Choose archetype: Could someone either: 1. Explain why this doesn't work and how to fix it. 2. Fix the tutorial so that it does work. It's disconcerting if the very first introductory docs for a project are broken. Thanks, Brendan Miller