The Yellow Marker

Sometimes it is the little things that make the biggest impact. So here is a quick solution to a common problem when using the maven archtype plugin.

If you want to run the plugin with

x:>mvn archtype:generate

and get the error that the plugin could not be found

The plugin ‘org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archtype-plugin’ does not exist or no valid version could be found

try to force maven to recheck the remote repositories by deleting the org/apache/maven file tree in your local repository

/org/apache/maven

If this does not help, make sure you have the right mirrors in your maven settings (conf/settings.conf). This one worked for me:

ibiblio.net
http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/packages/maven2
central

Hope this helped.

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