April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 59m
English
At the time of writing this book, Microsoft Windows 8.1 is the latest version of Microsoft Windows. While the screenshots and output will be for Microsoft Windows 8.1, the steps are similar for earlier (and possibly later) versions as well.
As Maven requires a Java platform, first ensure that you have installed the Java environment on your system, Java Development Kit (JDK) specifically; Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is not sufficient.
You can verify whether Java is installed on your system by opening Add or Remove Programs. If you see something similar to the following screenshot, JDK is installed on your system:
You can also verify the program folder structure from Microsoft Windows Explorer: ...