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- Check the Maven Documentation.
- Download the latest Maven release
- Maven's
/binfolder has to be added to the global variable "PATH" in order to take effect. - No further Further configuration is not required for Maven in order to compile.
For individual configuration, for example , to receive certain 3rd Party libraries from a Maven2 repository other than http://repo1.maven.org/maven2, you have to configure the settings.xml file.
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