How to install Maven

Download

1. 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.
   
2. Unzip/untar the binaries to a new folder (i.e. c:\maven\2.2.1).

Install and Configure

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:
   
   

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

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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:
   
   
   ${renderedContent}
   
   
5. Finally, download the Maven settings.xml file to your ${user.home}/.m2 directory.
   
   Open the settings.xml file with a text editor.
   
   
   1. In the line:
      
      
      ${renderedContent}
      
      change the /path/to/oc4j/j2ee/home to the actual path to your OC4J installation j2ee/home directory.
      
      
   2. In the line:
      
      
      ${renderedContent}
      
      change the XXXXXXXX to a password of your choosing.  This is the password the is used to access the OC4J Admin Console.