$Revision: 1.6 $	$Name: $	$Date: 2006/04/13 13:54:09 $	Working with maven 2
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Installation

Prerequisites

Download

Download & extract
Choose the distribution with the compression you prefer
- (bz2 has the highest compression rate)
You can check the validity of the download with an MD5 checksum
(Maven 2.0 Tasks for Ant is a way to use maven from within Ant)

Guide
Anywhere on your HD
- un*x suggestion:
  /opt/apache/maven/current --> /opt/apache/maven/maven-2.0
- Mac OS X suggestion:
  /Library/opt/apache/maven/current --> /Library/opt/apache/maven/maven-2.0
- Windows suggestion:
  C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\maven-20
Installation dir will be untouched by use
- Install read-only for users
- Can be installed on network drives by sysadmin
Set environment variable JAVA_HOME
maven is a CLI application: adjust path
Configure proxy if necessary
run mvn -v to check the installation

Look at the installed directory
maven-2.0/bin
- Windows and un*x shell scripts
- mvn
  - m2 is deprecated version of mvn
maven-2.0/conf
- Default settings.xml
- Each user can override these default settings
maven-2.0/core
- spine of maven
- the main()
maven-2.0/lib
- minimum minimorum of Java dependencies we need to bootstrap

maven is modular
You just only installed the core
Plugins will be automatically downloaded and installed when they are needed the first time
In a per-user directory
- un*x: ~/.m2
- Windows: %HOMEPATH%/m2
Multiple versions of plugins co-exist peacefully