Create Maven project from command line

This post shows how to create a Maven project from command line. Creating a Maven project from command line is note a difficult task. Following are the steps.

1. Create a directory "testApp" and move into that directory
2. Run the following command, which will do some downloading from the repository

   mvn archetype:generate
   

3. Then you will be asked to select a preferred configuration from the given list. It will prompt with a default archetype "org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart" selected. No need to enter a value. Just press enter for the moment.
4. It will prompt you to select the version of the archetype. By default the latest is selected. No need to enter a value. Just press enter.
5. It will prompt you for several other inputs

• Define value for property 'groupId': : com.example.testapp
  

• This will be the package id

• Define value for property 'artifactId': : mytestapp
  

• This will be the name of the final .jar file and whole project will be created inside a directory having this name

• Define value for property 'version':  1.0-SNAPSHOT: :
  

• No need to give any input, just press enter

• Define value for property 'package':  com.example.testapp: :
  

• No need to give any input, just press enter

• Confirm properties configuration:
  groupId: com.example.testapp
  artifactId: mytestapp
  version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
  package: com.example.testapp
   Y: : Y
  

• Confirm the given information by entering 'Y'
6.  You will see the following out put or similar

   [INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Old (1.x) Archetype: maven-archetype-quickstart:1.1
   [INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.example.testapp
   [INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.example.testapp
   [INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.example.testapp
   [INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: mytestapp
   [INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /home/<custom-path>/testApp
   [INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
   [INFO] project created from Old (1.x) Archetype in dir: /home/<custom-path>/testApp/mytestapp
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Total time: 2:58.495s
   [INFO] Finished at: Wed Jan 22 01:29:20 IST 2014
   [INFO] Final Memory: 13M/981M
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   

7. A new directory structure along with a pom.xml file is now created. This directory structure and the configurations inside the pom.xml is selected by the archetype. As we didn't specify any archetype, the default "org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart" is used and project is configured according to that.
8. At this stage you have success fully created a new Maven project using command line.