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user496949

Reputation: 86105

What's the difference between mvn archetype:generate and mvn archetype:create

any difference between those two?

Upvotes: 15

Views: 4501

Answers (2)

krock
krock

Reputation: 29619

Check the documentation for archetype generate, create has been kept for backwards compatibility:

For backward compatibility with the Archetype Plugin version 1.0-alpha-7, we kept the old create goal which can be called using mvn archetype:create.

So create and generate will do the same thing but create has been deprecated so you should use the generate command instead.

Upvotes: 6

Boris
Boris

Reputation: 4537

archetype:create is the old and deprecated form that needed all properties defined upon start, while archetype:generate is the newer and more comfortable way. archetype:generate knows about those catalogs where archetypes are listed and can ask you for missing properties/variables.

I guess the reason for introducing a new command was that the new generate was not backward-compatible, so it might have broken existing scripts that rely on it.

Upvotes: 14

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