Error “The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory” after executing maven command

Question

I have a pom.xml in C:\\Users\\AArmijos\\Desktop\\Factura Electronica\\MIyT\\componentes-1.0.4\\sources\\pom.xml and I executed:

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Answer 1

On windows as far as I'm concerned you have to enclose all parameters with quotes.

So if you want to create a maven webapp archetype you would do as follows:

Prerequisites:

1. Make sure you have maven installed and have it in your PATH environment variable.

Howto:

1. Open windows powershell
2. mkdir MyWebApp
3. cd MyWebApp
4. mvn archetype:generate "-DgroupId=com.javan.dev" "-DartifactId=MyWebApp" "-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp" "-DinteractiveMode=false"

Note: This is tested only on windows 10 powershell