------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bootstrapping Maven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set the environment variable M2_HOME pointing to the dir where you want Maven2 installed. NOTE: presently, the directory {M2_HOME}/bin must be in your path: set PATH=%PATH%;%M2_HOME%\bin or export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin You can set the parameters passed to the Java VM when running Maven2 bootstrap, setting the environment variable MAVEN_OPTS, e.g. e.g. to run in offline mode, set MAVEN_OPTS=-o Then run m2-bootstrap-all.bat (in Windows) or m2-bootstrap-all.sh (in Unix) NOTE: You must run these instructions from this directory! If you are behind a firewall, you will need to let the bootstrap process know. To do this, create a file at ~/.m2/settings.xml and paste in the XML below, substituting your settings for those provided. You can safely skip the username, password and nonProxyHost elements if they are not relevant to you. <settings> <proxies> <proxy> <active>true</active> <protocol>http</protocol> <host>proxy.somewhere.com</host> <port>8080</port> <username>proxyuser</username> <password>somepassword</password> <nonProxyHosts>www.google.com|*.somewhere.com</nonProxyHosts> </proxy> </proxies> </settings>