Apache Maven

Installation

The installation of Apache Maven is a simple process of extracting the archive and adding the bin folder with the mvn command to the PATH.

• Ensure JAVA_HOME environment variable is set and points to your JDK installation

• Download Apache Maven archive and extract as:

$ unzip apache-maven-3.6.0-bin.zip
or 
$ tar xzvf apache-maven-3.6.0-bin.tar.gz

Set the location of apache-maven-3.6.0 extracted as M2_HOME. You can add it to ~/.zshrc profile. Also, add the bin directory of this to PATH.

$ export M2_HOME=/Users/apoorvam/apache-maven-3.6.0
$ export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

To verify installation, you can run mvn -version:

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.6.0 (97c98ec64a1fdfee7767ce5ffb20918da4f719f3; 2018-10-24T14:41:47-04:00)
Maven home: /Users/apoorvam/apache-maven-3.6.0
Java version: 1.8.0_65, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_65.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.14.2", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"