How to create a maven archetype from project

October 29, 2026 08:45 Updated

Question

How to create a maven archetype from a project?

Answer

Use an existing maven project or create a sample maven project from quick-start maven archetypes:

mvn archetype:generate "-DgroupId=com.example" "-DartifactId=maven-demo-template" "-Dversion=1.0.0" "-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes" "-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart" "-DarchetypeVersion=1.0" "-DinteractiveMode=false"
cd .\maven-demo-template\

Create the archetype from the project.
```
mvn archetype:create-from-project
```
Install the archetype to maven local repository (default: ~/.m2/repository)
```
cd target/generated-sources/archetype
mvn clean install
```
Test that you can see the local archetype to generate a maven project (run the command in any folder)
```
mvn archetype:generate "-DarchetypeCatalog=local"
```