How to install Maven on Windows

Prerequisites

• We are going to install  Maven 3.3.9. So make sure you have JDK 7 installed. 
• Set JAVA_HOME env variable to above JDK. For me it is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_79
• Also I am using Windows 7.

How to install Maven on Windows

• Download Maven zip file from their official site. We are going to install Maven 3.3.9. So go ahead download the corresponding zip file - apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.zip
• Unzip it to some folder.  I have extracted it in folder - C:\Users\athakur\Softwares\apache-maven-3.3.9
• Now add M2_HOME and MAVEN_HOME environment variable and point them to your extracted folder.
  
• Append your %PATH% variable to add %M2_HOME%\bin
• Make sure your JAVA_HOME is set to JDK 7 as per note below.
• Finally you can execute mvn -version to see if maven is successful installed.
  
  
  

NOTE : Maven 3.3 requires JDK 1.7 or above to execute. Maven 3.2 requires JDK 1.6 or above, while Maven 3.0/3.1 requires JDK 1.5 or above

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