I am new to Maven and am using the maven.apache.org tutorial here as an introduction.
In the "How do I make my first Maven project?" section of the tutorial, it teaches us to generate a Maven archetype project by executing the following command:
mvn archetype:generate
After Maven downloaded many artifacts, it suddenly stopped and asked the following question on the command line:
Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains): 149:
The Apache tutorial does not describe this prompt.
I have two questions:
1. What is the question above asking for? How should it be answered such that the mvn archetype:generate
process continues?
2. Conventionally, do people use mvn archetype:generate
to create a Maven project?
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With respect to my 1st question, I pressed "enter" without inputting any value and got the following output:
Choose version:
1: 1.0-alpha-1
2: 1.0-alpha-2
3: 1.0-alpha-3
4: 1.0-alpha-4
5: 1.0
6: 1.1
Choose a number: 6:
What is that?
I input "1" in above case, then I got the following things:
Define value for property 'package': : :
Define value for property 'groupId': :
Define value for property 'artifactId': :
...
How can I define them?
mvn archetype:generate
command is used to create a project from an existing template. There are several archetype's defined by many developers and project groups. When you run the command, maven does following things:
After entering these information, Maven will show you all the information you entered and ask you to verify project creation. If you press Y and then enter, voila your project is created with the artifact and settings you chose.
You can also read maven-archetype-plugin's usage site.