Maven - Environment Setup

Introduction

Maven is Java based tool, so the very first requirement is to have JDK installed on your machine. We will discuss how to setup the Maven in windows operating system.

Overview

System Requirement

JDK	1.5 or above.
Memory	No minimum requirement.
Disk Space	No minimum requirement.
Operating System	No minimum requirement.

Verify Java installation on your machine

Now open console and execute the following java command.

Set JAVA environment

Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the base directory location where Java is installed on your machine. For example

Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_51.

Set Maven environment variables

Add M2_HOME to environment variables.

Set the environment variables using system properties.

M2_HOME=C:\JBoss\Maven\apache-maven-3.3.3

Add Maven bin directory location to system path

Now append M2 variable to System Path

Set the environment variables using system properties.

Path=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_51\bin;C:\JBoss\Maven\apache-maven-3.3.3\bin

Verify Maven installation

Now open console, execute the following mvn command.

Open Command Console        c:\> mvn –version

Finally, verify the output of the above commands, which should be something as follows:

Conclusion

Congratulations! You are now all set to use Apache Maven for your projects. In this article we covered Apache Maven setup in Windows Operating system.

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