Maven archetype generate pull newer or latest templates

RonPringadi :

We can use maven to generate project templates using mvn archetype:generate then pick an archetype number. If say I pick number 1977 1977: remote -> org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-sample-tomcat-archetype (Spring Boot Tomcat Sample). Maven will generate the java project and so on.

When I check the pom.xml file I see

<parent>
        <!-- Your own application should inherit from spring-boot-starter-parent -->
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2.RELEASE</version>
</parent>

It seems that the spring-boot-starter-parent version 1.0.2.RELEASE is from April 2014. Quite old now that it's 2019. https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-parent

My maven version is: apache-maven-3.5.4.

How do we get a newer template/archetype from maven?

K.Nicholas :

You can find a more recent sample on github:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-tomcat

However, I think that springboot has stopped using archetypes in favor of Spring Initializr.

There you would pick whatever version you want and add a Web dependency to have the Tomcat and MVC framework starter included.