I start maven to use in my project but I got the errors Please help to solve this. C:\Documents and Settings\rahult4\Desktop>mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.myc ompany.app -DartifactId=my-app [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exi st or no valid version could be found [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: < 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Tue Feb 19 16:27:14 IST 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------