Create Java Project From Maven

This how you should be using maven to create a java project from the scratch.

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If you have already installed maven on your comuter run the following command. This will open you the interactive mode.

mvn archetype:generate

This will take sometime to load a big list of varies project types can create using maven.

Choose archetype:
1: remote -> am.ik.archetype:elm-spring-boot-blank-archetype (Blank multi project for Spring Boot + Elm)
2: remote -> am.ik.archetype:graalvm-blank-archetype (Blank project for GraalVM)
...
2934: remote -> za.co.absa.hyperdrive:component-archetype_2.11 (-)
2935: remote -> za.co.absa.hyperdrive:component-archetype_2.12 (-)

Last line of the list will be

Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains): 1785:

If you simply enter here maven will create the project relevent to 1785 which is

1785: remote -> org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart (An archetype which contains a sample Maven project.)

If you wanna create a different project you can select from the list, for example 2703 will be

2703: remote -> org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-sample-simple-archetype (Spring Boot Simple Sample)

If you select 1785 and enter you will be prompted to select the version

Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains): 1785: 
Choose org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart 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
7: 1.3
8: 1.4
Choose a number: 8:

You can continue with the default

Then for the next steps you can enter, can confirm by pressing ‘y’

Define value for property ‘groupId’: mygroupId
Define value for property ‘artifactId’: myartifactId
Define value for property ‘version’ 1.0-SNAPSHOT: : 
Define value for property ‘package’ myartifactId: : 
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: test
artifactId: myartifactId
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: test
 Y: : y

All done, you got a new project for your coding …

Quick Way

Interactive mode is bit time consuming, if you go the data you can create the in a single line as below

mvn archetype:generate 
    -DgroupId={project-packaging}
    -DartifactId={project-name}
    -DarchetypeArtifactId={maven-template} 
    -DinteractiveMode=false

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