Installing Ant and Maven

Installing Ant

Installing Ant is very very simple. Following are the steps for that,

Step 1: Download the latest ant binary from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

Step 2: Extract it to folder in your machine. In my case C:\ant

Step 3: Set the following environmental variables in your machine

• JAVA_HOME : path/to/your/jdk (eg: C:\Java)
  
• ANT_HOME : path to folder where you extracted your ant copy (eg: C:\ant\apache-ant-1.8.0)
  
• PATH : %PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin

Step 4: To check whether the installation was successful, in command prompt type “ant” if it displays “build failed” then ant installation is successfully installed to your machine. But if it says it can not identify the command ant then there is a problem in the installation.

Installing Maven 2

Installing Maven is so simple, and is very much similar to the ant installation process. Given below is the maven installation process,

Step 1: Download the latest maven binary from http://maven.apache.org/download.html

Step 2: Extract it to folder in your machine. In my case C:\maven

Step 3: Set the following environmental variables in your machine

• JAVA_HOME : path/to/your/jdk (eg: C:\Java)
  
• M2_HOME : path to folder where you extracted your maven copy (eg: C:\maven\apache-maven-2.2.1)
  
• Set the following user variables in your machine (just above the environmental variables). M2 : %M2_HOME%\bin
• PATH : %PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%M2%

Step 4: To check whether the installation was successful, in command prompt type “mvn --version” if it displays the version information then the maven installation is successfully installed in your machine. But if it says it can not identify the command mvn then there is a problem in the installation.