The developer always wants to install Maven on Windows as first step in order to make a Maven project on the preferred IDE such as IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse or NetBeans IDE. The following steps are described below:
Step 1:
Setup JDK and JAVA_HOME
Make sure JDK is installed properly in the operating system and JAVA_HOME variable is added as Windows environment variable.
Step 2:
Download Apache Maven
Go to official website: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
Download Binary zip archive from the aforementioned website and ensure that system requirements are properly configured such as JDK, free disk space and operating system.
Unzip the folder to C:\Program Files\Apache\maven
Step 3:
Setup M2_HOME and MAVEN_HOME
Add both M2_HOME and MAVEN_HOME variables in the Windows environment and point it to the maven directory.
Note: M2_HOME or MAVEN_HOME. Maven document said add M2_HOME only, but some programs still reference Maven folder with MAVEN_HOME, so it's safer to add both.
Step 4:
Add to PATH
Update PATH variable, append Maven bin folder %M2_HOME%\bin, so that you can run the Maven command everywhere.
Step 5:
Verification
To verify maven if it works properly, try and run mvn -version command in the CMD of Windows.
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