Activti project creation with MAVEN

[elmehdi_eljair_]

Please your help, I got this error message when trying to create new project in eclipse with Maven :

Unable to create project from archetype [org.activiti:activiti-engine:5.16.4 -> ]
The defined artifact is not an archetype

[jbarrez]

What are you trying to do?
If you create a new project with maven; you dont need the archetype dependency; but rather the activiti-engine dependency.

[elmehdi_eljair_]

Hi Joram,

that's exactly what i"m trying to do: creating new "Activiti" project with Maven in Eclipse. Here's the steps that I follow :

1 - creation of a maven project
2 - Selection  of the activiti archetype :
      - Group id : org.activiti +
      - Artifact id : activiti-engine
      - version : 5.16.4
3 - Specification of archetypes parameters :
      - Group id
      - Artifact Id
- Package, version , etc..

Then the error below occurs :

Unable to create project from archetype [org.activiti:activiti-engine:5.16.4 -> ]
The defined artifact is not an archetype

[jbarrez]

"activiti-engine" is not an archetype, but a dependency.

You need to create a 'simple' project and skip archetype selection, then add the activiti-engine as a dependency in the pom.xml