While running maven from terminal, I get a list of around 2000 different archetypes belonging to various groups. But whenever I create a New Maven Project in Eclipse, I can only see a list of archeytpes from from group id org.apache.maven.archetypes
How can I get a more comprehensive list consisting of other groups ?
Double-check your Windows -> Preferences -> Maven -> Archetypes.
preferences.
From Import Maven Remote Archetype Catalogs in Eclipse:
Try for instance to import http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml.
Then a new maven project should list all archetypes available: