Use GROUP_ID=com.mycompany.app ARTIFACT_ID=my-app mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=$GROUP_ID -DartifactId=$ARTIFACT_ID \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=config-module-archetype -DarchetypeGroupId=org.opendaylight.controller \ -DarchetypeVersion=0.2.5-SNAPSHOT Module name and prefix define yang module name and its java name prefix. For example when creating thread factory wrapper, yang name might be thread-factory and java prefix ThreadFactory