How does the plugin find all the archetypes available in the system? When you just type mvn archetype:generate, a list of archetypes is displayed by the plugin for user selection. The complete list is around 1100, and only the first 10 are shown here:
1: remote -> br.com.ingenieux:elasticbeanstalk-service-webapp-archetype (A Maven Archetype Encompassing RestAssured, Jetty, Jackson, Guice and Jersey for Publishing JAX-RS-based Services on AWS' Elastic Beanstalk Service) 2: remote -> br.com.ingenieux:elasticbeanstalk-wrapper-webapp-archetype (A Maven Archetype Wrapping Existing war files on AWS' Elastic Beanstalk Service) 3: remote -> br.com.otavio.vraptor.archetypes:vraptor-archetype-blank (A simple project to start with VRaptor 4) 4: remote -> br.gov.frameworkdemoiselle.archetypes:demoiselle-html-rest (Archetype for web applications (HTML + REST) using Demoiselle Framework) 5: remote -> br.gov.frameworkdemoiselle.archetypes:demoiselle-jsf-jpa (Archetype...