maven archetype plugin - No archetype found in remote catalog. Defaulting to internal catalog

Question

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.5.2 (138edd61fd100ec658bfa2d307c43b76940a5d7d; 2017-10-18T09:58:13+02:00)

Fetching dependencies from the central repository works very well.
I have a problem with fetching archetypes though.

For example I am trying to use an archetype which is present in the central archetype catalog:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=sample-ear -DarchetypeArtifactId=wildfly-javaee7-webapp-ear-archetype -DarchetypeGroupId=org.wildfly.archetype -DinteractiveMode=false

Maven fails. It basically cannot see any archetypes in the remote catalog:

[WARNING] No archetype found in remote catalog. Defaulting to internal catalog
[WARNING] Specified archetype not found.

I am able to access the HTTP link for the catalog in a browser.

Documentation (http://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/specification/archetype-catalog.html) states clearly:

The Archetype Plugin knows by default about its internal catalog. It also knows about the local and remote catalogs.

remote represents the http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml catalog file.

Have you ever had such issue ?
I would be grateful for any hint that could direct me to find a solution.

Answer 1

Add option -DarchetypeVersion=8.2.0.Final