Somewhere between step 3 and 5 it goes down a rathole that just does not apply to most projects I've used (Spring, commons-*, iBatis, Wicket...) Of course, configure and install don't really apply to Java, doubly so now with Maven repositories...
The Maven archetype concept might be one of the greatest tools invented so far in combating the type of "intro tutorial" BS writing described here.
I wonder if that was the reason for the post... Does anyone else know examples matching the description?