Simple Wicket / Maven quickstart problem

Wicket gives a simple "quickstart" command generator for use with Maven on their homepage at http://wicket.apache.org/start/quickstart.html

I installed this and understand that Maven automatically downloads requisites that it needs from its central repository. But when I run the command it generates, I get:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.161s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri May 06 22:07:28 EDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (C:\Users\xxxxxx\Pro开发者_StackOverflow中文版jects\[project dir]). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [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.

What am I doing wrong?

the message suggests that Maven didn'recognize archetype plugin. Can you copy and paste exact command that you are using? Are using Windows cmd shell? Try escaping arguments.