Installing Maven

After few years of not needing it, I came back to Maven, reason being that I cannot use Gradle for reasons beyond my control and Ant does not describe complex projects structures required.

Getting new version of Maven

$ brew install maven

==> Downloading ....

/usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.2.3:

$ mvn -version

Apache Maven 3.2.3

$ which mvn

/usr/local/bin/mvn

Setting M2_HOME

$ echo $M2_HOME
# nada

I added the following in my ~/.profile

# Maven - updated: Oct 20, 2014
export MAVEN_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.2.3/
export PATH=${PATH}:${MAVEN_HOME}/bin
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.2.3/
export PATH=${PATH}:${M2_HOME}/libexec

and run:

$ echo $M2_HOME
/usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.2.3/