Problem with Maven

[Zeusviper]

Hello,
I have some problems to create a webservice project with maven, as described in tutorial.

When I try to execute this command :

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.springframework.ws \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-ws-archetype \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.5.2 \
  -DgroupId=com.mycompany \
  -DartifactId=holidayService

Firstly, I got some dl errors due to my proxy, changed conf and it's ok.
Next, I got a warning message which say that "create" is deprecated, but it doesn't seem to be the problem.

Next, he can't download spring :

[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

GroupId: org.springframework.ws
ArtifactId: maven-archetype-quickstart
Version: 1.5.2

Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository

So, I install manually as he advices :

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.ws 
-DartifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -Dversion=1.5.2 -Dpackaging=jar 
-Dfile=./spring-ws-1.5.2.jar

Some checksum errors, but build is successful.

When I retry the first command :

[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error creating from archetype

Embedded error: The META-INF/maven/archetype.xml descriptor cannot be found.

I don't understand the problem. I've done exactly what is said.

I tried to remove .m2 and retry, but same results.

Thanks for your help.

[tareq]

I think there is nothing wrong with the maven command you posted:

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.springframework.ws \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-ws-archetype \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.5.2 \
  -DgroupId=com.mycompany \
  -DartifactId=holidayService

I tried it myself and it worked perfectly. However, the error regarding the unresolvable artifact seems dodgy. Indeed, there is no such artifact: org.springframework.ws:maven-archetype-quickstart.
Are you sure you ran your build with that same command? Are you still having the problem?

[Zeusviper]

Hi,

don't understand.
It doesn't work on friday evening. Nothing was done since. I try again this morning, with the exact same command and.. it works!

Strange, but it works, probably my computer was already in week end! ;-)

Thanks