How to create an empty multi module Maven project?

Question

Right now I usually find a pom.xml file on the web that has a pom packaging and copy and paste it to create my parent project. Then I used to run <

Answer 1

Same answer as Chris H. i just added groupId, artifactId and version options and disabled the interactive mode.

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes \
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=pom-root \
    -DarchetypeVersion=RELEASE \
    -DinteractiveMode=false \
    -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \
    -DartifactId=my-app \
    -Dversion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT  \