Adding Archetype to STS Over Proxy
If you are behind the firewall or Proxy then you need to configure the proxy settings for maven to update its catalogs. STS Maven Update might not take the General - > Preference -- >Network proxy settings. In Either cases it is always helpful to configure the Maven Settings file located under window -> Preferences - >Maven Settings. The file might not exist for first time so have to create a file and add it to the location the general file format is < settings xmlns = "http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns : xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi : schemaLocation = " http : //maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http : //maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd"> < localRepository /> < interactiveMode /> < usePluginRegistry /> < offline /> < pluginGroups /> < servers /> < mirrors /> < proxies > ...