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Download and Install Maven

1. For MAC users:
   

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   Maven usually comes pre-installed on your MAC.  Verify that Maven is installed by opening a terminal window and typing the command line: *mvn --version*.  If Maven is installed, you should get something similar to:

   
   

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   Apache Maven 23.20.13 (r801777r1075438; 20092011-0802-0628 1512:1631:0109-0400)0500) Maven home: /usr/share/maven Java version: 1.6.0_2731, vendor: Apple Inc. Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_27\jre.jdk/Contents/Home Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252MacRoman OS name: "windowsmac os 7x", version: "10.6.18", arch: "amd64x86_64", Familyfamily: "windowsmac"

   
   

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   If you got something similar to the above, you can skip this section and go to *Install and Configur*the [*Configure Maven* | #Configure Maven] section.

   
   
2. Go to the Apache Maven Project download 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.
   
3. Unzip/untar the binaries to a new folder (ie.eg. c:\maven\2.2.1).
4. 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.

Install and Configure

1. Download the serverTrustStore.jks and save it to a new folder (i.e. c:\keystores).
2. To download Maven artifacts from the remote MIT maven repository (https://maven.mit.edu^{Image Removed}), 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.
   For MAC users:  You can now download a nice plugin that helps you manage your system environmental variables.  The plugin, RCEnvironment, is a preference pane for MacOS X 10.1 or higher that allows editing of a user's ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file.
3. 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"

   
   
4. 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

*<oc4j.j2eeHome>/path/to/oc4j/j2ee/home</oc4j.j2eeHome>*

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