August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
14h 45m
English
Content preview from Java Projects - Second Edition
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Installing Maven
Maven is neither a part of the operating system nor the JDK. It has to be downloaded and installed in a very similar way to Ant. You can download Maven from its official website (https://maven.apache.org/) under the download section. Currently, the latest stable version is 3.5.4. When you download it, the actual release may be different; instead, use the latest stable version. You can download the source or the precompiled version. The easiest way is to download the binary in tar.gz format.
I cannot skip drawing your attention to the importance of checking the download integrity using checksums. I have detailed the way to do it in the section Installing Ant.
After the file is downloaded, you can explode it into a subdirectory ...