The archetype plugin can operate in the batch mode either by setting the interactiveMode argument to false or passing -B as an argument. When operating in the batch mode, you need to clearly specify which archetype you are going to use with the arguments: archetypeGroupId, archetypeArtifactId, and archetypeVersion. Also, you need to clearly identify the resultant artifact with the groupId, artifactId, version, and package arguments, as follows:

$ mvn archetype:generate -B
                     -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes
                     -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
                     -DarchetypeVersion=1.0 
                     -DgroupId=com.packt.samples  
                     -DartifactId=com.packt.samples.archetype 
                     -Dversion=1.0.0 
                     -Dpackage=com.packt.samples.archetype

Any inquisitive mind should be having a very valid question by now.

In the non-interactive mode, we did not type any...