A wrongly spelled Artifac ID acusess a NullPointerException

When creating a new MavenEnabled project I am prompted to put in grou Id and artifact ID. I left a space in the arifact ID String and had a NullPointerException (and another non significant message from eclipse).

Given that Group ID and Artifact ID have strict syntax requirement it would be nice if the plugin could validate against them instead of leaving us with a somewhat misleading message. Some contextual information (Toolitips, for example) might come in handy. Maven is somewhat complex to startup and groupID and artifact ID are "advanced concepts" that a new comer has to face from the very frist moment without appreciating the benefits (... yet).