[ARCHETYPE-206] Document how to generate a project from archetype with authenticated repository

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-alpha-4
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Javier Diaz
• Created: 30/Sep/08 04:30
• Updated: 23/Aug/11 18:08
• Resolved: 19/Oct/10 16:59

Description

When the archetypes are in a password protected repository you can't download the archetype unless repository authentication information is specified in the settings.xml file, as follows:

<server>
  <id><archetype name>-repo</id>
  <username>myuser</username>
  <password>XXXXXX</password>
  <filePermissions>664</filePermissions>
  <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions>
  <configuration></configuration>
</server>

And the command should be invoked with the archetypeRepository option as follows:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=mygroup \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=<archetype-name> \
-DarchetypeVersion=XXXXX -DgroupId=com.abc \
-DartifactId=dummy \
-Dversion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT \
-DarchetypeRepository=http://www.abc.com/maven2

Issue Links

• is related to: ARCHETYPE-220 Unable to access remote catalogs on HTTPS protocol, even with redirection
• relates to: ARCHETYPE-204 Add option to use remote repositories that are password protected