title: How to share Maven archetypes?
body: <p>I've created a Maven archetype which I want to share within my company. To do so, I deployed it to our Nexus server and it can be used from there, but it is somewhat inconvenient since it seems not to be in the catalog of known archetyps on other machines. The workaround is to use it like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://nexus/content/repositories/releases/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Would it be possible to use maven without explicitly giving the archtype catalog? I want to use this internal archetype like any other public available archetype.</p>