Installing Maven on linux

What is maven?
Maven is essentially a project management and comprehension tool and as such provides a way to help with managing:

• Builds
• Documentation
• Reporting
• Dependencies
• SCMs
• Releases
• Distribution

If you want to have more details about maven please refer The Philosophy of Maven and The History of Maven.

Advantages of using mavan:

1. common build structure
2. build best practices enforcement (shared build meme)
3. automated build of application, from source code to pre-production platform => fast time to market with reduced risks
4. works well with distributed teams ;-) Location doesn't matter.

Compared to Ant:

1. Higher level of reusability between builds
2. Faster turn around time to set up a powerful build (once you're used to Maven)
3. Less maintenance
4. Shared build meme. I know how to build any maven project
5. Greater momentum: Ant is now legacy and not moving fast ahead. Maven is forging ahead fast and there's a potential of having lots of high-value tools around Maven (CI, Dashboard project, IDE integration, etc).

You can download the maven:

How to install:

create a environment variable on bash profile as

MAVEN_HOME=/installation path/apache-maven-2.2.1

Finally export it as export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH on your bash profile in Linux and source the bash profile .

You can check if maven is correctly installed by having mvn -v on terminal.