mvn archetype:generate
This will ask multi-choice questions regarding creating a new project/module.
Or you can directly specify all options as:
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.parwy.testproj -DartifactId=testproj -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
Archetypes include:
maven-archetype-archetype
maven-archetype-bundles
maven-archetype-j2ee-simple
maven-archetype-marmalade-mojo
maven-archetype-mojo
maven-archetype-plugin-site
maven-archetype-plugin
maven-archetype-portlet
maven-archetype-profiles
maven-archetype-quickstart
maven-archetype-simple
maven-archetype-site-simple
maven-archetype-site
maven-archetype-webapp
The default is maven-archetype-quickstart