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 have face the same problem when using maven 3.6.1 with jdk 1.7.40.

To solve this, i simply update my version of JDk to 1.8.241.

I hope this will help you.