I've just test the feature into eclipse and I also had the following warning "Catalog is empty".
So the remote catalog seems to be broken within Eclipse but it work with Maven only.
So you can run this command with CLI (you oly need Maven into your path) :
>mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=
http://www.jrebirth.org/archetype/jrebirth-catalog.xml[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] Using the builder org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder with a thread count of 1
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] >>> maven-archetype-plugin:2.3:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom >>>
[INFO]
[INFO] <<< maven-archetype-plugin:2.3:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom <<<
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-archetype-plugin:2.3:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode
[INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)
Choose archetype:
1:
http://www.jrebirth.org/archetype/jrebirth-catalog.xml -> org.jrebirth.af:archetype (JRebirth archetype for creating a new JavaFX application using JRebirth Fra
2:
http://www.jrebirth.org/archetype/jrebirth-catalog.xml -> org.jrebirth:archetype (JRebirth archetype for creating a new JavaFX 2 application using JRebirth Fram
Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains): : 1
Choose org.jrebirth.af:archetype version:
1: 7.7.0
2: 7.7.1
3: 7.7.2
4: 7.7.3
5: 7.7.5
6: 8.0.0
7: 8.0.1
8: 8.0.2-SNAPSHOT
9: 8.0.2
Choose a number: 9: 9
Downloading:
http://oss.jfrog.org/simple/oss-release-local/org/jrebirth/af/archetype/8.0.2/archetype-8.0.2.jarDownloaded:
http://oss.jfrog.org/simple/oss-release-local/org/jrebirth/af/archetype/8.0.2/archetype-8.0.2.jar (15 KB at 20.2 KB/sec)
Downloading:
http://oss.jfrog.org/simple/oss-release-local/org/jrebirth/af/archetype/8.0.2/archetype-8.0.2.pomDownloaded:
http://oss.jfrog.org/simple/oss-release-local/org/jrebirth/af/archetype/8.0.2/archetype-8.0.2.pom (2 KB at 2.7 KB/sec)
Define value for property 'groupId': : my.package
Define value for property 'artifactId': : test
Define value for property 'version': 1.0-SNAPSHOT: :
Define value for property 'package': my.package: : my.package.test
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: my.package
artifactId: test
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: my.package.test
Y: : y
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Archetype: archetype:8.0.2
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: my.package
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: test
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: my.package.test
[INFO] Parameter: packageInPathFormat, Value: my/package/test
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: my.package.test
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: my.package
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: test
[INFO] project created from Archetype in dir: C:\test
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 01:01 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-08-07T17:07:33+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 10M/24M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I will investigate about Eclipse failure....