Creating Maven multi-module project with Eclipse - eclipse

Question

I want to create a maven Multi-module project.
I want to create the Parent project using
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.websystique.multimodule -DartifactId=parent-project
But I got this error:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 0.203 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-05-02T19:57:19+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 9M/309M
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[ERROR] Could not find goal 'create' in plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:3.0.1 among available goals crawl, create-from-project, generate, help, integration-test, jar, update-local-catalog -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[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 read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoNotFoundException

Answer 1

Did you read the error message?
[ERROR] Could not find goal 'create' in plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:3.0.1 among available goals crawl, create-from-project, generate, help, integration-test, jar, update-local-catalog -> [Help 1]
The error message tells you that the goal you've specified for the plugin (create) isn't one of the available options. It also lists the valid options for you:
crawl
create-from-project
generate
help
integration-test
jar
update-local-catalog
The goal you're looking for is generate. For example:
mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.websystique.multimodule -DartifactId=parent-project
For more info: maven-archetype-plugin.