1 2 Apache Maven 3 4 What is it? 5 ----------- 6 7 Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on 8 the concept of a Project Object Model (POM), Maven can manage a project's 9 build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. 10 11 Documentation 12 ------------- 13 14 The most up-to-date documentation can be found at http://maven.apache.org/. 15 16 Release Notes 17 ------------- 18 19 The full list of changes can be found at http://maven.apache.org/release-notes.html. 20 21 System Requirements 22 ------------------- 23 24 JDK: 25 1.5 or above (this is to execute Maven - it still allows you to build against 1.3 26 and prior JDK's). 27 Memory: 28 No minimum requirement. 29 Disk: 30 No minimum requirement. Approximately 100MB will be used for your local repository, 31 however this will vary depending on usage and can be removed and redownloaded at 32 any time. 33 Operating System: 34 No minimum requirement. On Windows, Windows NT and above or Cygwin is required for 35 the startup scripts. Tested on Windows XP, Fedora Core and Mac OS X. 36 37 Installing Maven 38 ---------------- 39 40 1) Unpack the archive where you would like to store the binaries, eg: 41 42 Unix-based Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X) 43 tar zxvf apache-maven-3.x.y.tar.gz 44 Windows 2000/XP 45 unzip apache-maven-3.x.y.zip 46 47 2) A directory called "apache-maven-3.x.y" will be created. 48 49 3) Add the bin directory to your PATH, eg: 50 51 Unix-based Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X) 52 export PATH=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.x.y/bin:$PATH 53 Windows 2000/XP 54 set PATH="c:\program files\apache-maven-3.x.y\bin";%PATH% 55 56 4) Make sure JAVA_HOME is set to the location of your JDK 57 58 5) Run "mvn --version" to verify that it is correctly installed. 59 60 For complete documentation, see http://maven.apache.org/download.html#Installation 61 62 Licensing 63 --------- 64 65 Please see the file called LICENSE.TXT 66 67 Maven URLS 68 ---------- 69 70 Home Page: http://maven.apache.org/ 71 Downloads: http://maven.apache.org/download.html 72 Release Notes: http://maven.apache.org/release-notes.html 73 Mailing Lists: http://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html 74 Source Code: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git/apache-maven 75 Issue Tracking: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG 76 Wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ 77 Available Plugins: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/index.html 78
