Maven - trouble with mvn archetype:create

[Arundhathi Menon]

Hi ,

I am getting the following error console when I execute the command:
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.ee.kernel -DartifactId=com-ee-kernel

I have configured the proxy settings in my settings.xml. Can someone please tell me why this is happening?

Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archet
ype-plugin/1.0-alpha-7/maven-archetype-plugin-1.0-alpha-7.jar
2K downloaded
[WARNING] *** CHECKSUM FAILED - Checksum failed on download: local = 'd41c17bd23
24df6eb4cc348bd89b78647b21e539'; remote = 'b0280b2e376542c692104f38b14a4892e509a
379' - IGNORING
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The PluginDescriptor for the plugin Plugin [org.apache.maven.plugins:mave
n-archetype-plugin] was not found.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The PluginDescriptor for the plugin Plugin [org
.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin] was not found.
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.addPlugin(DefaultPluginM
anager.java:317)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyVersionedPlugin(De
faultPluginManager.java:207)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPlug
inManager.java:171)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(Defa
ultLifecycleExecutor.java:1257)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor
(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1522)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListBy
AggregationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:386)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLi
fecycleExecutor.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:280)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)

at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 16 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Sep 03 11:12:25 IST 2007
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/3M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------