Have you look at http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/quickstart/ ?
The following works for me and I am using maven 2.1.0. mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://tapestry.formos.com/maven-repository Note that when you run the above command, you will be prompted for archetypeGroupId, etc. Shing --- On Mon, 13/4/09, Jason Viloria <jnv...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Jason Viloria <jnv...@gmail.com> > Subject: tutorial fails with maven > To: users@tapestry.apache.org > Date: Monday, 13 April, 2009, 2:04 AM > Hi, > > I am very new to maven, not to linux, or java web dev > however. > > I am trying to follow the tutorial at: > http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5/tutorial1/first.html > and on running: > > mvn -e archetype:create > -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.tapestry > -DarchetypeArtifactId=quickstart > -DgroupId=org.apache.tapestry > -DartifactId=tutorial1 > -DpackageName=org.apache.tapestry5.tutorial > > I get an error of which I believe the most relevant is the > following: (But > please kindly let me know if the full mvn output is > required and I shall > add) > > Embedded error: The META-INF/maven/archetype.xml descriptor > cannot be found. > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Trace > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: > Error creating from > archetype > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:564) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:493) > > > I am using: > > Ubuntu 8.04.2 > Maven version: 2.0.8 [I have also tried 2.1.0] > java version "1.6.0_13" [This is the one from > java.sun.com] > Apache Ant version 1.7.0 > > Can you please help me. I've been reading the Tapestry > 5 Book and also > really got interested on tapestry on what I have read about > it so far. > > regards > Jason --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org