mvn archetype:generate does not work-no plugin found for prefix 'archetype'

Question

I want to build a simple project using a existing archetype. But I can\'t run mvn archetype:generate as it keeps telling me the following information

Answer 1

I was banging with this problem 2 days, I checked proxy , copied settings.xml from conf folder , deleted user local .m2 folder , came out of eclipse and installed maven directly and tried . None of the above worked.

Finallay the problem fixed by upgrading java home form 1.7 to 1.8 . My maven version is Apache Maven 3.6.3 .

Maven should report proper error for the specific issue but it is not.

Up voted the suggestion of java upgrade in this thread , previously they were down voted