How to Setup Maven on Windows?

Installing Maven on Windows

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. We will see how it can be set up on a Windows machine?

First of all, we need to download maven from the given link: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Extract the downloaded ZIP file and save in your machine Setup environment variable as shown below.

Follow the following steps to get the above screen.

1. Right-click on the My Computer icon from your desktop
2. Click Properties
3. Click Advanced tab
4. Click Environment Variables button
5. You would see Environment Variables interface
6. Click New associated with System variables section
7. You would see the New System Variable interface
8. Put MAVEN_HOME into the variable name field
9. Put path of your Maven into the variable value field, as in the above screen my ANT Home directory is installed on C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\apache-maven
10. Click OK
11. In the System Variables, you would see the variable Select the row, click Edit and define two paths (C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\apache-maven\bin) like in the following screen, in our case path of Maven bin folder is C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\apache-maven\bin
12. Click OK
13. To check setup run command mvn -version as shown in below screen

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