Hi,
jtango-maven-archetype is now released and synchronized with maven central!
You can use it to start a new JTango project:
mvn archetype:generate \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.tango-controls \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=jtango-maven-archetype \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.1
This will generate a project like this:

GitHub project page: link
Cheers,