Getting started -> 7.7.7 The desired archetype does not exist :(

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8
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I tried to get started with version 7.7.7 by follwoing the getting started section:

mvn -B archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.vaadin
-DarchetypeArtifactId=vaadin-archetype-application -DarchetypeVersion=7.7.7
-DgroupId=org.test -DartifactId=vaadin-app -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

Problem is that I get the following error:
The desired archetype does not exist (com.vaadin:vaadin-archetype-application:7.7.7)

I tested the same command with version 7.2.3 and it worked as expected.

2

Please try again with the -U switch. The archetype is in the archetype catalog of Maven Central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml), and your command works for me, so I suspect your archetype catalog was cached somehow incorrectly.

Note that for pre-releases (such as Vaadin 8.0.0.rc1), you need to give an additional parameter or two to specify to use the pre-release repository by adding the parameter
-DarchetypeRepository=https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases .

3

Thank you for your answer, I tried again with the following command:

mvn -B -U archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=com.vaadin -DarchetypeArtifactId=vaadin-archetype-application
-DarchetypeVersion=7.7.7 -DgroupId=org.test -DartifactId=vaadin-test -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

Still with the same result and one of my colleagues did the same and also got the same error message.

Could it be something else?

4

Henri, I can reproduce this. I tried executing mvn with the -X switch and I see

[DEBUG]
 Searching for remote catalog: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml

[DEBUG]
 Using catalog /Users/ollimurto/.m2/repository/archetype-catalog.xml

[INFO]
 Archetype repository not defined. Using the one from [com.vaadin:vaadin-archetype-application:7.7.7]
 found in catalog remote

[DEBUG]
 Not found archetype com.vaadin:vaadin-archetype-application:7.7.7 in cache

[DEBUG]
 Using transporter WagonTransporter with priority -1.0 for https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2

[DEBUG]
 Using connector BasicRepositoryConnector with priority 0.0 for https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2

[INFO]
 Downloading: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/vaadin/vaadin-archetypes/7.7.7/vaadin-archetypes-7.7.7.pom

[DEBUG]
 Writing tracking file /Users/ollimurto/.m2/repository/com/vaadin/vaadin-archetypes/7.7.7/vaadin-archetypes-7.7.7.pom.lastUpdated

[DEBUG]
 Archetype com.vaadin:vaadin-archetype-application:7.7.7 doesn't exist

org.apache.maven.archetype.downloader.DownloadException: Error downloading com.vaadin:vaadin-archetype-application:jar:7.7.7.
...
Caused by: org.eclipse.aether.transfer.ArtifactNotFoundException: Could not find artifact com.vaadin:vaadin-archetypes:pom:7.7.7 in central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)

in the stacktrace…

I think that should be “vaadin-archetype-application” instead of “vaadin-archetypes”, which is not found in the repository, correct?

5

Hi,

Having this issue too, the problem is that vaadin-archetype-application defines vaadin-archetypes as parent pom, and that parent pom is the one missing @ maven central repo.

Any news when this could be fixed?

Thanks in advance.

6

update:

version 7.7.4 onwards have the same problem. 7.7.3 works as it has

<parent>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</parent>

as parent and that artifact is found in maven central repo.

dunno what has changed between those versions, but at least 7.7.3 can get you started till the problem is fixed.

7

I can confirm this. Thanks for point this out, we’ve been blind. We are going to fix this immediately.

8

This was caused by maven-archetype-plugin version 3.0.0 update, which requires the parent to be deployed. We’ve fixed this now for versions 7.7.4-7.7.7 by deploying vaadin-archetypes to maven central.

9

Great! I can see them now at maven central

Thanks Pekka :wink: