Error creating new maven project

Question

When I try to create a new maven project (with several archetypes, not just below), I encountered this error:

Unable to create project from archetype [org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:RELEASE]
Unable to add module to the current project as it is not of packaging type 'pom'

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to solve it?

Answer 1

It seems your directory is not empty. this command line works for me: (in an empty directory)

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=fr.myGroupId -DartifactId=MyApplication -Dpackagename=fr.myGroupId -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart

result:

[INFO] Using property: groupId = fr.myGroupId
[INFO] Using property: artifactId = MyApplication
Define value for property 'version':  1.0-SNAPSHOT: : 
[INFO] Using property: package = fr.myGroupId
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: fr.myGroupId
artifactId: MyApplication2
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: fr.myGroupId
 Y: : 
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Old (1.x) Archetype: maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: fr.myGroupId
[INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: fr.myGroupId
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: fr.myGroupId
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: MyApplication2
[INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /home/ABC-OBJECTIF/philippe.demanget/workspace/pdemanget/tmp/mvn
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] project created from Old (1.x) Archetype in dir: /home/ABC-OBJECTIF/philippe.demanget/workspace/pdemanget/tmp/mvn/MyApplication2
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 9.764s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Apr 22 13:35:17 CEST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 14M/216M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

I can reproduce your error by running this command line inside the newly created directory:

cd MyApplication
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=fr.myGroupId -DartifactId=MyApplication -Dpackagename=fr.myGroupId -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
[...] [INFO] BUILD FAILURE

Answer 2

I had the same problem solving manually deleting an unused pom.xml file in the root of the workspace directory