Tuesday 15 December 2009

Maven


Apache Maven

Setup maven:

  1. Create a JAVA_HOME system variable.
  2. Create an M2_HOME system variable.
  3. Add %JAVA_HOME%\bin;%M2_HOME%\bin; to your system path.
  4. (Optional) Create a %MAVEN_OPTS% system variable. This variable name specified as java options in mvn.bat and mvn.sh. "-Xms512m -Xmx6024m"

Set configurations:

Configuration file (setting.xml) cab be found in two places:

  • The Maven install: $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml (Global setting)
  • A user’s install: ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml (User setting)

If both files configured then configuration in both will be merged and user setting will override global setting. 

Set the location for local maven repository:

Default local repository configuration details in setting.xml.

 

Include the following to entry to point to the local repository C:/maven/m2repository


/maven/m2repository