Getting errors while trying to build a skeleton Mule Cloud Connector.. - maven

Question

So I'm following the tutorials online to build a cloud connector but I can't even get the skeleton to be generated!
tutorial 1
tutorial 2
I get the following error, using the create-cloud-connector.bat script given by the Mule Cloud Connect Development Kit
> [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.170s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jul 30 13:00:57 EDT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 7M/122M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: The desired archetype does not exist (org.mule.tools:mule-cloud-connector-archetype:2.0.16) -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException
what are some things I could be doing wrong?
I updated the Maven settings.xml file
the first question is " Name of the cloud service the new connector uses
[default: ] " can I enter anything there? (or does it have to be like an existing service? what if I'm building one that doesn't exist?)

Answer 1

It looks like the tutorial is pointing at rather old version of the archetype (2.0.16) that maven can't even find.
I recommend to replace the generation step with the following command
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.mule.tools.devkit -DarchetypeArtifactId=mule-devkit-archetype-cloud-connector -DarchetypeVersion=3.3.0
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