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Download

Go to the [*Apache Maven Project download*|http://maven.apache.org/download.html] site.  Scroll down until you reach the *Maven 2.2.1* section and select either *Maven 2.2.1 (Binary tar.gz)* or *Maven 2.2.1 (Binary zip)*.  Select a Mirror and save the downloaded file on your workstation.

Install and Configure

1. Unzip/untar the binaries to a new folder (i.e. c:\maven\2.2.1).  Add the path to the Maven bin directory to the system PATH environment variable.  For example: add c:\maven\2.2.1\bin to the PATH environment variable.
2. Download the serverTrustStore.jks and save it to a new folder (i.e. c:\keystores).
3. To download Maven artifacts from the remote MIT maven repository (https://maven.mit.edu), an SSL connection is required.  For Maven to acquire an SSL connection, you must create a system environment variable MAVEN_OPTS and set it as below:
   
   

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   *MAVEN_OPTS=-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/serverTrustStore.jks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword="XXXXXXXX" -Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m*

   
   In the above, replace the /path/to with the actual path to the serverTrustStore.jks and replace XXXXXXXX with the actual serverTrustStore password.
4. Verify the Maven installation by opening a CMD window and typying the command line: mvn --version.  If everything is correct, something similar to the following should be displayed:
   
   

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   Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 15:16:01-0400) Java version: 1.6.0_27 Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_27\jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 7" version: "6.1" arch: "amd64" Family: "windows"

   
   
5. If the Maven installation has been verified in the above step, then initialize Maven by typing the command line: mvn plugin::help.  Maven download will start and if everything download's correctly, something similar to the following should be displayed at the end of the download:
   
   

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   \[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL \[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \[INFO] Total time: 58 seconds \[INFO] Finished at: Thu May 31 10:23:25 EDT 2012 \[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/981M \[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

   
   
6. Finally, download the Maven settings.xml file to your ${user.home}/.m2 directory. Open the settings.xml file with a text editor and in the line:
   
   

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   <oc4j.password>*XXXXXXXX*</oc4j.password>

   
   change the XXXXXXXX to a password of your choosing.  This is the password the is used to access the OC4J Admin Console.