Maven Introduction
First, download maven-1.0.2.exe or maven-1.0.2.zip from
http://apache.justdn.org/maven/binaries/maven-1.0.2.exe
Then, unzip maven-1.0.2.zip to C:/ maven-1.0.2
Set MAVEN_HOME as : C:/ maven-1.0.2
Set %MAVEN_HOME%\bin to environment path.
Now, you can have a try to use it:
Go to ms-dos, and input C: >meven , and you will see:
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| \/ |__ _Apache__ ___
| |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~
|_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0.2
This is showed that you have configured maven successfully.
Now, we can do a simple example to use maven.
Create a new folder named maventest in the C disk, and the go into ms-dos, input C:\MavenTest>maven genapp, press enter, you can input follow messages:
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| \/ |__ _Apache__ ___
| |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~
|_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0.2
Enter a project template to use: [default]
Please specify an id for your application: [app]
wangxq
Please specify a name for your application: [Example Application]
wangxq
Please specify the package for your application: [example.app]
wangxq
build:start:
genapp:
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\MavenTest\src\java\wangxq
[copy] Copying 3 files to C:\MavenTest\src\test\wangxq
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\MavenTest
[copy] Copying 2 files to C:\MavenTest
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 33 seconds
Finished at: Wed Mar 01
09:26:00 CST
2006
Now, you can find that there are two new folders and two files in the maventest folder, these things are created automaticly by maven genapp plugin.
And then, you can implement C:\MavenTest>maven java:compile:
Maven will download needed jar form internet, and when it finishes, it will compile java files in the src folder. And then create a new folder contain class files.
build:start:
java:prepare-filesystem:
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\MavenTest\target\classes
java:compile:
[echo] Compiling to C:\MavenTest/target/classes
[echo]
==========================================================
NOTE: Targetting JVM 1.4, classes
will not run on earlier JVMs
==========================================================
[javac] Compiling 1 source file to C:\MavenTest\target\classes
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 minutes 48 seconds
Finished at: Wed Mar 01
09:29:58 CST
2006
And then, you can implement C:\MavenTest>maven jar:
Maven will download needed jar form internet, and when it finishes, it will implement jar files in the target folder.
build:start:
java:prepare-filesystem:
java:compile:
[echo] Compiling to C:\MavenTest/target/classes
[echo]
==========================================================
NOTE: Targetting JVM 1.4, classes
will not run on earlier JVMs
==========================================================
java:jar-resources:
test:prepare-filesystem:
test:test-resources:
test:compile:
test:test:
[junit] Running wangxq.AppTest
[junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.125 sec
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 7 seconds
Finished at: Wed Mar 01
10:35:05 CST
2006
By the way, we should know that maven find configure parameters start from defaults.properties which is in the maven.jar, open the defaults.properties, modify maven.repo.remote =
http://apache.linuxforum.net/dist/java-repository,
http://dist.codehaus.org
,
http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/maven,
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/maven
,
http://www.ibiblio.org/mavenMaven
These URLs should in the same line; we modify this just because some one cannot download files in the default remote repository----ibiblio.org. And then, we had better modify default location where download jars placed. We create a new folder in the MAVEN_HOME named local, and then,
Set maven.home.local = ${maven.home}/local.
Maybe there will have random code problem in the Chinese environment, so we find org\apache\maven\messages\ messages_zh_CN.properties in the maven.jar, and modify Chinese characters to English characters.