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How to Install Maven on windows

How to Install Maven on windows:


  1. Install Maven from http://maven.apache.org/download.html 
  2. Extract the "apache-maven-x.x.x-bin.zip" file.
  3. Open System Variable and add a new system variables name "MAVEN_HOME" with variable value "C:\Maven\apache-maven-3.0.4" Figure1.
  4. Then form System variables choose Path click on edit and add in variable value the path of the MAVEN bin "C:\Maven\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin". Figure2.
    Hint: If you don't find the Path in system variables then define a new one.
     
  5. Make Sure that :JAVA_HOME: exists in your system variables and it is set to the location of your JDK, "e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_05".Figure3.
    Hint:you can install Java JDk from this link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html 
  6. Open a new command prompt (Winkey + R then type cmd).
  7. Run the following line: mvn --version to verify that it is correctly installed.
  8.  If you got the following lines as in Figure 4 then you installed it successfully 
    Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 10:44:56+0200)
    Maven home: C:\Maven\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin\..
    Java version: 1.7.0_05, vendor: Oracle Corporation
    Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_05\jre
    Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
    OS name: "windows server 2008", version: "6.0", arch: "x86", family: "windows"

    Figure 1 Add MAVEN_HOME

    Figure2 Add MAVEN bin path to Path of the system variables

    Add JDK to JAVA_HOME
    Install MAVEN successfully

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