What is wrong with maven?

Question

Maven

Trying to just get started with maven.
habrahabr.ru/post/77382
habrahabr.ru/post/77333
Stupidly I can't start.
I downloaded maven from the official site. installed. shows the version, path registered.
I have read the above articles.
Half of the links are no longer working. Plugin under eclipse I can not understand where and how it works.
The specified commands for creating a maven repository swear:
Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.4:create (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: Unable to parse configuration of mojo org.apache. maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.4:create for parameter #: Cannot create instance of interface org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository -> [Help 1]
Has everyone abandoned maven for a long time, or why is it so difficult to start an empty project from scratch according to the official documentation?

Answer 1

Yep, I found it like this
https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/in...
But damn, how much outdated documentation is everywhere.
In total, pom.xml looks like this:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.my-site.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>SortingVisualization</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>my-project-name</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifest>
              <mainClass>Run</mainClass>
            </manifest>
          </archive>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>