As described here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.turbine.maven.user/28710 , the archetype plugin fails to recognize binary files from text files for template substitution. [ERROR] ResourceManager.getResource() parse exception: org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Lexical error: org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 44, column 36. Encountered: <EOF> after : "" Is defining binary resources disallowed ? I can upload the created archetype if necessary.