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

Question

any difference between those two?

Answer 1

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.