Maven

I have some projects that use Maven. Here are the steps to get maven. Go to the Maven website. There is Maven 2 and Maven 3. Get the Maven 3 download. The name of the download is the following:

apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz

If you are using Windows, you can download the version with the zip extension. Download it and unpack it on your local drive. Now add it to your path.

• Linux (bash)
  export PATH=<Maven_home_directory>/bin

• Windows
  set PATH=<Maven_home_directory>/bin;%path%

Now test it with the following command:

mvn -version

You should see version output similar to the following:

brian@rt13:~$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 00:44:56-0800)
Maven home: /home/brian/pkg/apache-maven-3.0.4
Java version: 1.6.0_18, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8

You now have Maven working.