Generating Maven projects in batch mode using PowerShell

Sun, Mar 18, 2018

It just took me 75 minutes to create a Maven quickstart project on Windows 10 using PowerShell in batch mode.

DONT MAKE MY MISTAKES.

Do the following instead:

• Provide all mandatory parameters or batch mode won’t work. This is poorly documented in the official Maven tutorial, but correctly documented here:
  • -B for batch mode or -DinteractiveMode=false instead
  • -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes
  • -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
  • -DarchetypeVersion=1.1
  • -DgroupId=com.example
  • -DartifactId=app
  • -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT
  • -Dpackage=com.example.project
• In PowerShell you have to use double quotes around every parameter, e.g. "-DgroupId=com.example"
• Don’t use line breaks in your archetype:generate command.

Full example:

mvn archetype:generate -B "-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes" "-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart" "-DarchetypeVersion=1.1" "-DgroupId=com.example" "-DartifactId=app" "-Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT" "-Dpackage=com.example.project"