How to install MAVEN in Windows ?

In our last post, we have learned how to install Java in windows machine.Now to start our Java web development we need a build tool.Although we can develop our web project without Maven also but its recommend using Maven as it reduces a lot of development time and effort by automating building project.Maven takes care of jar dependency, clean, build, packaging and other project maintenance task.

Before Installing Maven make sure JDK is installed in machine and environment variable is set.

• Download the maven files (apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.zip) from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi.
• Extract the zip folder and keep in C drive or D drive.

Setting up the environment variable for maven as we did for Java

• Go to my computer -- properties --Advanced system settings--create new System variables --M2_HOME.

• Variable value will be similar path like this up to bin folder - Copy path D:\Java Software\apache-maven-3.3.9\bin

• In System, variables edit the path entry and add %M2_HOME%\bin; in the path.
• Done

To verify the maven installation

• Go to command prompt.
• Type mvn -version and it will show maven version.

No its time to start your first maven web application .

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