Getting Started With Maven

This blog guides you through initial setup and running of maven. 

Step 1:

Download Maven binary zip file from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Download file : apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.zip

Step 2:

Extract folder and place at any location in your system. Lets suppose we store at

Step 3:

Set environment variable

Add JAVA_HOME and MAVEN_HOME.  And then both home location in your path system variables.

Step 4: Now open command prompt and go to workspace and then type below command.

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.vikas -DartifactId=SimpleMavenTestStart -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

Project created with all pom.xml.  

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.vikas</groupId>
  <artifactId>SimpleMavenTestStart</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>NumberGenerator</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project

Step 5:  Now we can update pom.xml  as per requirement of project.

Step 6:  To generate jar file of project

type command:   mvn package

Now under target folder SimpleMavenTestStart-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar  gets created.

Step 7: To run jar type below command

java -cp target/SimpleMavenTestStart-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.vikas.App

Step 8:  Now to open same project in eclipse

type:            mvn eclipse:eclipse

Now, project is ready to be imported in eclipse, if required

Step 9: Now to deal with this project as maven project from inside eclipse

Select project and right click , go to Configure> Convert to Maven Project 

Step 10 :Now to build or verify 

Go to run as maven build> type goal as  :

clean verify or

clean install