With the most recent versions of the Maven archetype plug-in (since version 3.0.0), the -DarchetypeCatalog option is no longer supported and the logic for locating an archetype catalog appears to have changed also. Users will encounter this problem any time they try to invoke a FIS quickstart using the following syntax:

mvn archetype:generate ...

Currently, the FIS 2.0 guide works around this problem by explicitly invoking an older (version 2.4) version of the plug-in:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.4:generate

But this is not a good long term solution. Ideally, the FIS archetype catalog should be modified somehow to be compatible with the latest version of the archetype plug-in.