Hi Mike
Welcome to the MSDN forum.
Please have a look these articles:
create your project with Maven and How to create a Java / Maven project that works in Visual Studio Code?
According that, you need to use “mvn” command line to create it.
Since your issue is related to JAVA for VS code, our forum is discussing with VS IDE issue. If you have more question
about importing Maven project or other else, I recommend you can ask questions and search for answers on Stack
Overflow with “vs code” tag and enter issues and feature requests directly in our GitHub
repository. If you'd like to contact a professional support engineer, you can open a ticket with the Microsoft
assisted support team.
Hope my reply would be helpful and looking forwards your reply.
Br
May
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