Maven 3 installation and configuration

In this tutorial we are going to show how to set up a working maven 3 installation.
Follow this steps:
- Download maven 3
- Install maven 3
- Configure maven 3
- Check setup

1. Download maven 3

• Navigate to http://maven.apache.org/download.html
• Download binary ZIP archive

2. Install maven 3

• Unpack ZIP archive to a directory of your choosing that suits your needs

3. Configure maven 3

We are going to configure our maven installation to use a custom repository directory.
• Create a directory for your repository
• Navigate to conf/settings.xml file of your maven installation
• Locate localRepository tag and change its value to a directory that you just created
• Add M2_HOME variable pointing to your maven installation
• Add bin directory of your maven installation to a PATH variable

4. Check setup

We are going to check if we can setup a simple test project with maven.
• Run a command line window – cmd command
• Enter following command

mvn archetype:create –DgroupId=com.itcuties –DartifactId=test

After maven downloads all the needed resources for executing this command a new test project is created.

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