Install Apache Maven on Windows.

Installing Apache Maven on Windows.

To install maven you just need to set the environment variables after downloading and extracting maven's zip file as shown here.

1. You need a Java Development Kit (JDK), the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is not sufficient. Make sure that JAVA_HOME exists in your user variables or in the system variables and it is set to the location of your JDK, e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0 and that %JAVA_HOME%\bin is in your Path environment variable (see Fig. 1). 
2. Download Maven zip file and extract it, e.g. D:\soffy\maven\apache-maven-3.0.4. 
3. Add this Maven extracted location to the environment variables (see Fig. 1).

Fig. 1

Now test if you have configured the env. variables correct by typing mvn -version in the command prompt. If everything is ok you will see output like as in Fig. 2.

 

Fig. 2 

If you are through upto this point then Congrats you have installed Maven successfully and ready to dive into the world of Maven.