Verify Environment Variables
Verify the environment variable changes and Maven install For Linux Users To verify that the changes have been implemented correctly, open a terminal and execute the following commands: Execute echo $M2_HOME, which should return the following result. [localhost]$ echo $M2_HOME /home/username/apache-maven-2.2.1 Execute echo $M2, which should return the following result. [localhost]$ echo $M2 /home/username/apache-maven-2.2.1/bin Execute echo $PATH, and verify the Maven /bin directory is included. [localhost]$ echo $PATH /home/username/apache-maven-2.2.1/bin Execute which mvn, which should display the path to the Maven executable. [localhost]$ which mvn ~/apache-maven-2.2.1/bin/mvn Execute mvn -version, which should display the Maven version, related Java version, and operating system information. [localhost]$ $ mvn -version Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-07 05:16:01+1000) Java version: 1.6.0_0 Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "Linux" version: "2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586" arch: "i386" Family: "unix" For Windows Users To verify that the changes have been implemented correctly, open a terminal and execute the following command: In a command prompt, execute mvn -version C:> mvn -version Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 12:16:01-0700) Java version: 1.6.0_17 Java home: C:SunSDKjdkjre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows xp" version: "5.1" arch: "x86" Family: "windows" You have now successfully configured Maven for use with the examples in this guide.