Maven archtype plugin doesn't exist error

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hey,
I have Maven 2.2.0, JDK 6 on Mac OS X 10.6 with the system firewall is set to on.
I'm trying to create a web application via maven archtype:
mvn archtype:generate
But I got this error:

 
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archtype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archtype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1568)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1808)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListByAggregationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:446)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:176)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:356)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:137)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:41)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.version.PluginVersionNotFoundException: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archtype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:229)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:91)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPluginManager.java:172)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1539)
	... 15 more

Any idea what is going wrong?
Thanks for help and time.

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Ok, I'm issuing an error command, shame on me.