Question

I am trying my hands on the Akka Pi java tutorials

I am trying to creaate a maven project as stated in the tutorial

but any time I enter the command to create a maven project I get an error.
Below are the command and the Error.

C:\Program Files\akka-2.0.2>mvn archetype:generate \


C:\Program Files\akka-2.0.2>mvn archetype:generate \
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.206s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Sep 26 02:50:38 BST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/245M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM
 in this directory (C:\Program Files\akka-2.0.2). Please verify you invoked Mave
n from the correct directory. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
ch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea
d the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProject
Exception

looks like maven is requesting for the POM file but it is not stated in the tutrials that I have to create a POM before generating the project.
I am actually new too maven so pardon me.
I am using maven version :3.0.4
and akka version 2.0.2
but the tutorial uses akka version 2.0.1 but i donn’t think that is the problem
any suggestion please.

thank you

Answer 1

remove the \ then it should start to query for more informations.

I have no windows here, but on linux it shows the same behavior with

mvn archetype:generate /

HTH R