Archetype « plugin « Maven/Ant Q&A

1. mvn archetype:generate does not work-no plugin found for prefox 'archetype'    stackoverflow.com

I am a newbie on maven and I want to build a simple project using a exsiting archetype. But I can't run mvn archtype:generate as it keeps telling me the following ...

2. Maven archetype plugin doesn't let .resources in archetype-resources through    stackoverflow.com

Does anybody know how can I make resources like .gitignore be part of the resulting project ?

1. create archetype with archetype-resources/.gitignore
2. mvn install
3. mvn archatype:generate
4. resulting project doesn't contain .gitignore