Install Maven for Eclipse

• Eclipse 4.5 MARS (or newer)

• Method 1: Install Maven as embed program into Eclipse.
• Method 2: Install Maven independently on Windows and declare it so that Eclipse can use it.

After you've installed Maven, you can read document using Maven for beginners:

• Maven Tutorial for Beginners

• File/New/Other..

If Maven Wizard exists, it means your Eclipse has been installed with Maven Plugin, and it is ready to work. However, you still can re-install its latest version if you want.

Enter:

• Name: m2e
• Location: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases

You have successfully installed Maven into Eclipse, restart Eclipse.

Download Maven

• http://maven.apache.org/

• http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

This document is based on the latest 3.3.3 Maven version, so we are going to download and use this version.

After the Maven is downloaded completely, you can extract and save the zip file on a specific folder of the hard drive.
You can see an example as below:

• D:/DevPrograms/apache-maven.3.3.3

This is an extracting result on hard drive

Setup Environment variables

The next step is declaration an environmental variable to maven. These pictures as below are based on Windows 7, and the other Windows operating systems are similar.

They are included the environmental variable and declared to Path

• JAVA_HOME=C:\DevPrograms\Java\jdk1.8.0_40
• M2_HOME=D:\DevPrograms\apache-maven-3.3.3
• M2=%M2_HOME%\bin
• Path=;%M2%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

Please check to make sure that you do not declare the JAVA_HOME environmental variable, then add it.

Similarly, you can declare to two other environmental variables.

Finally, append to the value of the Path environmental variable as below :

• ;%M2%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

Next, check your environmental declarations. You'd better restart or "log off" your computer.

Open a command window and type the command:

• mvn --version

Declare setup location Maven on Eclipse

Open a folder:

• D:\DevPrograms\apache-maven-3.3.3\conf

Open the settings.xml file to change some parameters.

Then add:

• <localRepository>D:\DevPrograms\apache-maven-3.3.3\repository</localRepository>

Open Window/Reference on Eclipse.

Click "Add" to add a new profile.

Next, declare the position of the Maven configuration file which was changed last time .

The Maven installation into Eclipse is completed.