SampleJavaProject -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart Open the command line window and type the below command, Maven creates a blank java project with all default options.Ĭ:\MVNProject>mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=net.javabeat -DartifactId= In the example below, We’ll create a maven based java application project in C:\MVNProject folder. To create a simple java application, we’ll use maven-archetype-quickstart plugin from command line. Maven uses archetype plugins to create projects. Buy: Apache Maven Implementation from.If you are interested in receiving the future articles on Java topics, please subscribe here. If you have any questions, please post it in the comments section. In this article, we shall see how to create a simple Maven project, check the created directories and build the project. In previous article(“ Apache Maven for Beginners“), we talked about installing and configuring maven on windows operating system. Maven is a build and project management tool for java based application development.