Failed to resolve version for org.apache.maven.archetypes

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I have configured maven3.0.3 in my local machine. Have installed m2e eclipse plugin. But when i try to create a new maven project using maven-archetype-webapp, i get the following exception.

 Could not resolve archetype org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp:RELEASE    from any of the configured repositories.
 Could not resolve artifact org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype- webapp:pom:RELEASE
 Failed to resolve version for org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype- webapp:pom:RELEASE: Could not find metadata org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype- webapp/maven-metadata.xml in local ([HOME]/.m2/repository)
 Failed to resolve version for org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-  webapp:pom:RELEASE: Could not find metadata org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-  webapp/maven-metadata.xml in local ([HOME]/.m2/repository)

I do some processing behind a proxy and the proxy configurations are updated in {HOME}/.m2/settings.xml and M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml.

The archetype generate command works fine in command line. It downloaded the dependencies through proxy.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit 05-10-2012 While creating a new Maven Web project in eclipse, the archetype "maven-archetype-webapp" version is displayed as RELEASE. Is this in anyway linked?

org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp:RELEASE this look strange ? Are you sure having the correct version? (http://search.maven.org/#search|gav|1|g%3A%22org.apache.maven.archetypes%22%20AND%20a%3A%22maven-archetype-webapp%22) — khmarbaise, Oct 05 '12 at 08:46
@khmarbaise The scenario happens when im trying create a maven project in eclipse. I have tried installing the plugin from [link](http://eclipse.org/m2e/download/). The result was same. Then i tried to follow the instructions in [link](http://www.rarejava.com/blog/2011/03/maven-integration-for-eclipse) — Haroon, Oct 05 '12 at 11:58
The eclipse message does say **Could not find metadata org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp/maven-metadata.xml in local ({HOME}/.m2/repository** . Can there be any reason that eclipse isnt downloading maven-metadata.xml. The proxy works because I have installed the m2e plugin online. Any hints or directions? — Haroon, Oct 05 '12 at 12:06
@khmarbaise The command executed succeffully on the commandline **mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp** and a web project was created. Im still unable to do it from Eclipse. — Haroon, Oct 05 '12 at 13:33
I had a syntax error in settings.xml. Fixing the error solved the issue. — narendra-choudhary, Nov 16 '17 at 05:56

Justin Wrobel · Answer 1 · 2023-01-12T19:15:24.577

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I had the same problem. I fixed it by adding the maven archetype catalog to eclipse. Steps are provided below:

Open Window > Preferences
Open Maven > Archetypes
Click 'Add Remote Catalog' and add the following:
- Catalog File: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml
- Description: maven catalog

edited Jan 12 '23 at 19:15

answered Apr 03 '13 at 13:52

Justin Wrobel

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Your solution didn't work for me. Finally I solved the problem: See detailed steps at my response at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25760961/cannot-create-maven-project-in-eclipse/25807975#25807975 – freesoft Sep 12 '14 at 13:23
Error while adding the catalog file: An internal error occurred during Downloading reomte catalog – user881703 Feb 12 '17 at 04:37
while adding remote catalog when I click on verify it says `Remote catalog is empty`, if I continue anyway its not working – viveksinghggits Aug 11 '17 at 08:47
This worked for me, but then I started getting OOM exception in eclipse, because it starts pulling out the list of all the archtypes from the remote server, which takes some memory. I had to increase -Xmx in eclipse.ini, so we need to make sure that eclipse already has enough memory allocated. – kunal Oct 10 '17 at 20:32
Though this works, but sometimes some other issue could make this solution ineffective. I had the issue with mirrors in my maven settings.xml. Once I commented out those in settings.xml, it worked for me. – vinsinraw Dec 26 '19 at 10:31

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '12 at 13:08

I found the following tutorial very useful.

Step1: The maven command used to create the web app: mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=test.aasweb -DartifactId=TestWebApp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp

Step2: The following entry was added onto the project's pom.xml.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.2</version>
    <configuration>
    <source>1.6</source>
    <target>1.6</target>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
    <wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
    <wtpversion>1.5</wtpversion>
    <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
    <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
        <classpathContainers>
            <classpathContainer>
                org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.container
            </classpathContainer>
            <classpathContainer>
                org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.module.container
            </classpathContainer>
        /classpathContainers>
        <additionalProjectFacets>
            <jst.web>2.5</jst.web>
            <jst.jsf>1.2</jst.jsf>
        </additionalProjectFacets>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Step3: Run the maven command to convert into eclipse project format. mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse

Step4: Import the project onto eclipse as Existing Maven project.

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

If you are using eclipse, you can follow the steps here (maven in 5 min not working) for getting your proxy information. Once done follow the steps below:

Go to Maven installation folder C:\apache-maven-3.1.0\conf\
Copy settings.xml to C:\Users\[UserFolder]\.m2

Modify the proxy in settings.xml based on the info that you get from the above link.

<proxy>
  <active>true</active>
  <protocol>http</protocol>
  <host>your proxy</host>
  <port>your port</port>
</proxy>

Open eclipse
Go to: Windows > Preferences > Maven > User Settings
Browse the settings.xml from .m2 folder
Click Update Settings
Click Reindex
Apply the changes and Click OK

You can now try to create Maven Project in Eclipse

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 22 '14 at 14:23

Read carefully about the reason.

"Failed to resolve version for org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype- webapp:pom:RELEASE: Could not find metadata org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype- webapp/maven-metadata.xml in local"

So all you need to do is download the maven-metadata.xml to your {HOME}.m2\repository

That's it.

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 13 '16 at 18:41

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You do need to have a settings.xml linked under user settings (Located in preferences under maven)

But, if that doesn't fix it, like it didn't for many of you. You also have to delete the directory:

.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/archetypes/maven-archetype-quickstart

then quit eclipse and try again.

This is what solved my problem.

answered Sep 13 '16 at 18:41

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My problem was also solved just by pointing to the right settings.xml file. (Window/Preferences/Maven/User Settings) – Sandoval0992 Sep 03 '18 at 17:48

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 17 '19 at 08:45

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Go to Windows-> Preference-> Maven -> User settings

Select settings.xml of Maven

Restart Eclipse

edited Jan 17 '19 at 08:45

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answered Mar 28 '17 at 12:57

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 29 '16 at 21:55

I had a similar problem building from just command line Maven. I eventually got past that error by adding -U to the maven arguments.

Depending on how you have your source repository configuration set up in your settings.xml, sometimes Maven fails to download a particular artifact, so it assumes that the artifact can't be downloaded, even if you change some settings that would give Maven visibility to the artifact if it just tried. -U forces Maven to look again.

Now you need to make sure that the artifact Maven is looking for is in at least one of the repositories that is referenced by your settings.xml. To know for sure, run

mvn help:effective-settings

from the directory of the module you are trying to build. That should give you, among other things, a complete list of the repositories you Maven is using to look for the artifact.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 22 '16 at 10:20

I too had same problem but after searching solved this. go to menu --> window-->preferences-->maven-->Installations-->add--> in place of installation home add path to the directory in which you installed maven-->finish-->check the box of newly added content-->apply-->ok. now create new maven project but remember try with different group id and artifact id.

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 20 '17 at 15:15

The right way to solve my problem are as followed. Hope to be helpful to others. the errors informations.

Could not resolve archetype org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp:1.0 from any of the configured repositories. Could not resolve artifact org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp:pom:1.0 Failure to transfer org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-webapp:pom:1.0

Delete the maven-archetype-webapp:1.0 in the directory ~/.m2/repository/org/Apache/maven/archetypes
Download the maven-archetype-webapp:1.0 and the maven-archetype-webapp-1.0.pom from http://maven.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/archetypes/maven-archetype-webapp/1.0/
execute mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DartifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -Dversion=1.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=此处填maven-archetype-webapp-1.0的路径.
try to establish a maven project of webapp to test whether the problem has solved.

score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Apr 23 '18 at 18:14

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Create New User Environment Variables:

MAVEN_HOME=D:\apache-maven-3.5.3

MAVEN=D:\apache-maven-3.5.3\bin

MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512m

Appened below in Path variable (System Variable):

;D:\apache-maven-3.5.3\bin;

edited Apr 23 '18 at 18:14

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 25 '18 at 13:45

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This worked for me:- navigate to windows-> preferences-> maven and check the "download artifacts sources" and click apply.

answered Jul 25 '18 at 13:45

dagmawi tadesse

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Aug 28 '18 at 07:13

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No need to do all above lengthy steps.

Simply delete c:\Users\.m2\Repository\org folder

Maven will automatically downloads what it needs

answered Aug 28 '18 at 07:13

shiv chatur

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Sep 04 '18 at 13:11

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I simple use below steps:

Create Maven project -> check checkobox -> "Create a simple project (skip archetype selection)"

It works for me

answered Sep 04 '18 at 13:11

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Oct 09 '18 at 14:00

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I downloaded the jar and pom from: here and put them here:

\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\archetypes\maven-archetype-quickstart\1.1\

answered Oct 09 '18 at 14:00

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Kudos · Answer 15 · 2019-01-12T15:23:12.267

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I also got same error ....And i found that my internet connection is closed so eclipse is unable to download repositories for webapps archetypes and when i got internet connection i just created again maven project with webapps archetypes and my eclipse downloaded repositories and its done...

edited Jan 12 '19 at 15:23

answered Jan 11 '19 at 10:23

Kudos

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score 0 · Answer 16 · edited Jan 17 '19 at 10:25

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This is 100% working:

Delete the .m2 folder which is present in your Desktop>User
connect your pc to the Internet
Create your maven project again

Thats it, hope it helps

edited Jan 17 '19 at 10:25

Employee

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered May 27 '20 at 08:08

Try , It worked for = I just removed "archetypes" folder from below location

C:\Users\Lenovo.m2\repository\org\apache\maven

But you may change following for experiment - download latest binary zip of Maven, add to you C:\ drive and change following....

Change Proxy

 <proxy>
          <id>optional</id>
          <active>true</active>
          <protocol>http</protocol>
          <username></username>
          <password></password>
          <host>10.23.73.253</host>
          <port>8080</port>
          <nonProxyHosts>local.net|some.host.com</nonProxyHosts>
        </proxy>

score -1 · Answer 18 · answered Oct 30 '17 at 09:55

I had the same problem i solved it by only adding remote catalog in eclipse go to Window -> Preferences ->Maven ->Archetypes ->click on add remote Catalog then a window will open in that paste
http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml in that catalog file then hit ok restart eclipse now all working fine

score -2 · Answer 19 · edited Jun 13 '14 at 15:23

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The problem may also come from that you haven't set MAVEN_HOME environment variable. So the Maven embedded in Eclipse can't do its job to download the archetype.Check if that variable is set upfront.

edited Jun 13 '14 at 15:23

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