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Maven
 
 
Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. It's primary goal is to make the developers life easier by providing a well defined project structure, well defined development processes to follow, and a coherent body of documentation that keeps your developers and clients apprised of what's happening with your project.

Maven is distributed at no charge for commercial or non-commercial use and is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

More information about Maven can be found at: http://maven.apache.org

The latest Maven version can be downloaded from: http://maven.apache.org/download.html

Quick guides







Installing Maven 1.0-rc4.



Information
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Operating system used
Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1 SP 2

Software prerequisites
Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) SDK, version 1.2 or higher.

Procedure
  1. Download and unzip the latest Maven version.
    Note: The version of Maven available at the time of this writing was
    maven-1.0-rc4.zip. Everything in this guide refers to version 1.0-rc4.

  2. Set the MAVEN_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed Maven. e.g.: MAVEN_HOME=C:\Tools\maven-1.0-rc4

    Note: the JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set to the directory where your J2SE SDK is installed.

  3. Add the bin directory to your path. e.g.: PATH=%PATH%;%MAVEN_HOME%\bin

  4. Create your local repository:

    %MAVEN_HOME%\bin\install_repo.bat %USERPROFILE%\.maven\repository

  5. To check if Maven is installed correctly, type: maven -v
    You should see:

    Maven version