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The  maven-archetype-plugin 1.0-alpha4 or above is required for this tutorial. When an older version is installed, a BUILD ERROR will occur. The version can be checked by having a look at the name of the directories contained in ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin (~ is you user directory, on Windows C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>). In case only an older version is presendpresent, we create a minimal pom.xml in the folder where we're calling the mvn archetype:create goal in (so the current folder) and fill the created file with the following content: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>mygroup</groupId>
    <artifactId>myartifact</artifactId>
    <version>myversion</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-archetype-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>1.0-alpha-4</version>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>
    </build>
</project>