Maven archetype error in eclipse

Question

I have installed eclipse neon 64 bit on windows 7 enterprise. I am trying to create a maven project but everytime i am receiving an error--{ Could not resolve archetype from any of the configured repositories}--. I have checked the settings.xml file and added catalog too but still cant get rid of this error. any suggestions. Thanks. This is the error image in eclipse

Answer 1

You could create it using command line:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app 
    -DartifactId=my-app -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart

And then import into the Eclipse using File -> Import -> Existing Maven Project. The result will be the same.