What's the difference between mvn archetype:generate and mvn archetype:create

Question

any difference between those two?

Answer 1

archetype:create is the old and deprecated form that needed all properties defined upon start, while archetype:generate is the newer and more comfortable way. archetype:generate knows about those catalogs where archetypes are listed and can ask you for missing properties/variables.

I guess the reason for introducing a new command was that the new generate was not backward-compatible, so it might have broken existing scripts that rely on it.