Maven in Linux

What is Maven?

Maven is primarily used in Java Projects. It is a build automation tool. It allows the developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. Other than this the build process of the project become easy. Also, it provides a uniform build system, provide quality project information, provide guidelines for best practices development and it allows transparent migration to new features.

Dependency Management with Maven

Dependency management is a mechanism to centralize the dependency information. It easily manages multi module projects with high degree of control and stability. Transitive Dependency is one of the features that dependency allows to avoid needing to discover and specify libraries that your own dependencies require. This will make easy because we no need to check whether our dependent libraries are depends on any other library and include it. It will happen automatically. To restrict this process it has defined scope.

What is Archetype?

This is a Maven project template creating toolkit. Here we are trying to provide a system that provides a consistent means of generating Maven projects. Archetype will help authors create Maven project templates for users, and provides users with the means to generate parameterized versions of those project templates.

To create a new project based on an Archetype, you need to call mvn archetype:generate

Maven provides several Archetype artifacts as mentioned below.

How to setup Maven on Linux?

Step 1: Update your server.

Step 2 : Download the latest version of the Apache Maven

Step 3 : Extract it in a particular directory.

Step 4 : Go to the path where extracted the folder and open the terminal.

Step 5 : Add class path variable in ~/.bashrc.

Step 6 : Add class path to it and save before exit.

Step 7 : To make sure class path is added use following code lines.

Step 8 : To ensure that Maven installed successfully use following command.

Now once you can create and enjoy your java project.

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