Let us see how to setup maven project : "A Project Object Model (POM) based management, build, reporting and documentation tool" on Mac Operating system.
Environment:Operating System: Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10
Maven version: v3.3.3
Java version: Java Development Kit JDK 7 or higher
Disk requirement: min 10Mb
You can download the latest build from Apache Maven website : https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi.
Note : If you are using older version of Mac OS X (1.6) you may find maven installed under /usr/share/maven.
Setting up maven:Download maven Binary tar.gz archive ( latest : http://mirror.nexcess.net/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz)
Go to terminal app
Execute the following commands to set Java and Maven bin path :
export PATH=/Users/username/Setups/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin:$PATH JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/
To check if maven is configured correctly run the following command: mvn -version
localhost:Users username$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.3.3 (7994120775791599e205a5524ec3e0dfe41d4a06; 2015-04-22T17:27:37+05:30)
Maven home: /Users/username/Setups/apache-maven-3.3.3
Java version: 1.8.0_25, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.10.3", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
localhost:Users username$
Note : If the path is not set correctly you may get errors when you run mvn - version
localhost:Users username$ export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/
localhost:Users username$ mvn -version
Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Hom//bin/java
localhost:Users username$
Note: Maven 3.3.3 requires java version 1.7 or above, if you use a version below it you may get the following error,
localhost:Users username$ mvn --version
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:2337)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:121)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:441)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:134)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:13)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:122)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:240)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClassFromSelf(ClassRealm.java:341)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy.loadClass(SelfFirstStrategy.java:22)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.unsynchronizedLoadClass(ClassRealm.java:343)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:234)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:339)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.getMainClass(Launcher.java:134)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:246)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:332)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:135)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:345)
localhost:Users username$
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