Apache Maven 3 Cookbook
Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

This is a quick installation guide to Apache Maven on a Mac, using the Terminal and the command line. Estimated duration: 15 minutes.

Apache Maven is a software build, management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM, materialized as an XML file), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. It can save you precious time when you have to manage all your external Java libraries (JAR).

Environment

  • Mac OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) – Mavericks
  • Apache Maven 3.1.1
  • Java 1.7

Downloads

Apache Maven can be downloaded from http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi.

Installation

Type in the following commands:

$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/apache-maven
$ cd /usr/local/apache-maven
$ sudo cp /Users/jgp/Downloads/apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.zip .
$ sudo unzip apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.zip
$ ls -l
total 12304
drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel      306 Sep 17 11:24 apache-maven-3.1.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  6297277 Feb 20 14:12 apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.zip

Modify the bashrc file:

$ sudo vi /etc/bashrc

Add (esc, :$ (enter), $, a (enter), paste):

export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.1.1
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"
export PATH=$M2:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7`
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Save (esc, :w! (enter), :q (enter)).

Checking

Run, in a new tab in terminal or a new terminal. This is to make sure that the bashrc file has been reloaded.

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.1.1 (0728685237757ffbf44136acec0402957f723d9a; 2013-09-17 11:22:22-0400)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.1.1
Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.9.1", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

Cleanup

Delete the remaining zip file.

$ sudo rm /usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.zip

 

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