How to find the archetype of maven project in eclipse?

Question

I am planning to create a new project but I want to understand the archetype of existing maven project. So that I can follow the same archetype while creating a new one. i have tried many things one of them was web.xml but still not working for me. I would appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For a Maven project, there is no general way to find out from which archetype it was created.

Answer 2

Use mvn archetype:create-from-project

Reference: http://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/advanced-usage.html