Maven， 是基于项目对象模型（Project Object Model， POM），通过一小段描述信息来管理项目的构建、报告、文档的软件项目管理工具。

目前，绝大多数开发人员都把 Ant 当作 Java 编程项目的标准构建工具。

但是，Ant 的项目管理工具（作为 make的替代工具）不能满足绝大多数开发人员的需要。

通过检查 Ant 构建文件，很难发现项目的相关性信息和其它元信息（如开发人员/拥有者、版本或站点主页）。

Maven 除了以程序构建能力为特色之外，还提供 Ant 所缺少的高级项目管理工具。由于 Maven 的缺省构建规则有较高的可重用性，所以常常用两三行 Maven 构建脚本就可以构建简单的项目，而使用 Ant 则需要十几行。事实上，由于 Maven 的面向项目的方法，许多 Apache Jakarta 项目现在使用 Maven，而且公司项目采用 Maven 的比例在持续增长。

Maven这个单词来自于意第绪语，意为知识的积累，最早在Jakata Turbine项目中它开始被用来试图简化构建过程。当时有很多项目，它们的Ant build文件仅有细微的差别，而JAR文件都由CVS来维护。于是Maven创始者开始了Maven这个项目，该项目的清晰定义包括，一种很方便的发布项目信息的方式，以及一种在多个项目中共享JAR的方式。

Maven 和 Ant 有什么不同

Ant 为 Java 技术开发项目提供跨平台构建任务

Maven 本身描述项目的高级方面，它从 Ant 借用了绝大多数构建任务

由上比较可知，Maven 和 Ant 代表两个差异很大的工具

1， 下载

官方下载地址： maven_download ， 最新版 apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz

官方地址： maven

2， 解压

tar   zxvf   apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz （例如安装目录为： /home/homer/Apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.5）

3， 安装

1） 编辑 /etc/profile

sudo   vi   /etc/profile

2） 配置

配置maven安装目录：

export MAVEN_HOME =/home/homer/Apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.5 // 安装目录

export PATH=${ MAVEN_HOME }/bin:${PATH}

如下图：

3） 生效

source   /etc/profile // 使上面配置生效

4， 验证

命令行输入：  mvn  -v

如上图， 显示maven版本信息，表示安装成功！

5、setting.xml 配置文件

setting.xml 配置文件，在安装目录（/opt/maven-3.0.5/conf/settings.xml）和本地目录（/home/homer/.m2/settings.xml）都有，区别：

1） 安装目录（conf/settings.xml），全局设置，对本机器上所有用户有效（同一台机器可以有多个用户，均有效）

2） 当前目录（.m2/settings.xml），局部设置，对当前用户有效（例如： homer）

maven还有一个配置文件pom.xml，是在java项目的根目录下，仅对当前项目有效，局部设置

setting.xml 配置文件示例

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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-->

<!--
 | This is the configuration file for Maven. It can be specified at two levels:
 |
 |  1. User Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for a single user, 
 |                 and is normally provided in ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml.
 |
 |                 NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:
 |
 |                 -s /path/to/user/settings.xml
 |
 |  2. Global Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for all Maven
 |                 users on a machine (assuming they're all using the same Maven
 |                 installation). It's normally provided in 
 |                 ${maven.home}/conf/settings.xml.
 |
 |                 NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:
 |
 |                 -gs /path/to/global/settings.xml
 |
 | The sections in this sample file are intended to give you a running start at
 | getting the most out of your Maven installation. Where appropriate, the default
 | values (values used when the setting is not specified) are provided.
 |
 |-->
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
    <!-- localRepository
   | The path to the local repository maven will use to store artifacts.
   |
   | Default: ~/.m2/repository
  <localRepository>/path/to/local/repo</localRepository>
  -->
  <localRepository>~/.m2/repository</localRepository>

  <!-- interactiveMode
   | This will determine whether maven prompts you when it needs input. If set to false,
   | maven will use a sensible default value, perhaps based on some other setting, for
   | the parameter in question.
   |
   | Default: true
  <interactiveMode>true</interactiveMode>
  -->

  <!-- offline
   | Determines whether maven should attempt to connect to the network when executing a build.
   | This will have an effect on artifact downloads, artifact deployment, and others.
   |
   | Default: false
  <offline>false</offline>
  -->

  <!-- pluginGroups
   | This is a list of additional group identifiers that will be searched when resolving plugins by their prefix, i.e.
   | when invoking a command line like "mvn prefix:goal". Maven will automatically add the group identifiers
   | "org.apache.maven.plugins" and "org.codehaus.mojo" if these are not already contained in the list.
   |-->
  <pluginGroups>
      <!-- pluginGroup
     | Specifies a further group identifier to use for plugin lookup.
    <pluginGroup>com.your.plugins</pluginGroup>
    -->
  </pluginGroups>

  <!-- proxies
   | This is a list of proxies which can be used on this machine to connect to the network.
   | Unless otherwise specified (by system property or command-line switch), the first proxy
   | specification in this list marked as active will be used.
   |-->
  <proxies>
      <!-- proxy
     | Specification for one proxy, to be used in connecting to the network.
     |
    <proxy>
      <id>optional</id>
      <active>true</active>
      <protocol>http</protocol>
      <username>proxyuser</username>
      <password>proxypass</password>
      <host>proxy.host.net</host>
      <port>80</port>
      <nonProxyHosts>local.net|some.host.com</nonProxyHosts>
    </proxy>
    -->
  </proxies>

  <!-- servers
   | This is a list of authentication profiles, keyed by the server-id used within the system.
   | Authentication profiles can be used whenever maven must make a connection to a remote server.
   |-->
  <servers>
      <!-- server
     | Specifies the authentication information to use when connecting to a particular server, identified by
     | a unique name within the system (referred to by the 'id' attribute below).
     | 
     | NOTE: You should either specify username/password OR privateKey/passphrase, since these pairings are 
     |       used together.
     |
    <server>
      <id>deploymentRepo</id>
      <username>repouser</username>
      <password>repopwd</password>
    </server>
    -->


    <server>
        <id>nexus-server</id>
        <username>deployment</username>
        <password>12345678</password>
    </server>

    <server>
        <id>nexus-maven-server</id>
        <username>deployer</username>
        <password>123456</password>
    </server>

    <server>
        <id>releases</id>
        <username>deployer</username>
        <password>123456</password>
    </server>

    <server>
        <id>snapshots</id>
        <username>deployer</username>
        <password>123456</password>
    </server>

    <server>
        <id>public</id>
        <username>deployer</username>
        <password>123456</password>
    </server>

    <server>
        <id>thirdpary</id>
        <username>admin</username>
        <password>admin123</password>
    </server>

    <server>
      <id>myserver</id>
      <username>yanggang</username>
      <password>123456</password>
    </server>


    <!-- Another sample, using keys to authenticate.
    <server>
      <id>siteServer</id>
      <privateKey>/path/to/private/key</privateKey>
      <passphrase>optional; leave empty if not used.</passphrase>
    </server>
    -->
  </servers>

  <!-- mirrors
   | This is a list of mirrors to be used in downloading artifacts from remote repositories.
   | 
   | It works like this: a POM may declare a repository to use in resolving certain artifacts.
   | However, this repository may have problems with heavy traffic at times, so people have mirrored
   | it to several places.
   |
   | That repository definition will have a unique id, so we can create a mirror reference for that
   | repository, to be used as an alternate download site. The mirror site will be the preferred 
   | server for that repository.
   |-->
  <mirrors>
      <!-- mirror
     | Specifies a repository mirror site to use instead of a given repository. The repository that
     | this mirror serves has an ID that matches the mirrorOf element of this mirror. IDs are used
     | for inheritance and direct lookup purposes, and must be unique across the set of mirrors.
     |
    <mirror>
      <id>mirrorId</id>
      <mirrorOf>repositoryId</mirrorOf>
      <name>Human Readable Name for this Mirror.</name>
      <url>http://my.repository.com/repo/path</url>
    </mirror>
     -->

    <!-- This sends everything else to /public -->
    <!--
    <mirror>
        <id>nexus</id>
        <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
        <url>http://192.168.120.247:8081/nexus/content/repositories/public</url>
      </mirror>
    -->
    </mirrors>

         <!-- profiles
   | This is a list of profiles which can be activated in a variety of ways, and which can modify
   | the build process. Profiles provided in the settings.xml are intended to provide local machine-
   | specific paths and repository locations which allow the build to work in the local environment.
   |
   | For example, if you have an integration testing plugin - like cactus - that needs to know where
   | your Tomcat instance is installed, you can provide a variable here such that the variable is 
   | dereferenced during the build process to configure the cactus plugin.
   |
   | As noted above, profiles can be activated in a variety of ways. One way - the activeProfiles
   | section of this document (settings.xml) - will be discussed later. Another way essentially
   | relies on the detection of a system property, either matching a particular value for the property,
   | or merely testing its existence. Profiles can also be activated by JDK version prefix, where a 
   | value of '1.4' might activate a profile when the build is executed on a JDK version of '1.4.2_07'.
   | Finally, the list of active profiles can be specified directly from the command line.
   |
   | NOTE: For profiles defined in the settings.xml, you are restricted to specifying only artifact
   |       repositories, plugin repositories, and free-form properties to be used as configuration
   |       variables for plugins in the POM.
   |
   |-->
  <profiles>
      <!-- profile
     | Specifies a set of introductions to the build process, to be activated using one or more of the
     | mechanisms described above. For inheritance purposes, and to activate profiles via <activatedProfiles/>
     | or the command line, profiles have to have an ID that is unique.
     |
     | An encouraged best practice for profile identification is to use a consistent naming convention
     | for profiles, such as 'env-dev', 'env-test', 'env-production', 'user-jdcasey', 'user-brett', etc.
     | This will make it more intuitive to understand what the set of introduced profiles is attempting
     | to accomplish, particularly when you only have a list of profile id's for debug.
     |
     | This profile example uses the JDK version to trigger activation, and provides a JDK-specific repo.
    <profile>
      <id>jdk-1.4</id>

      <activation>
        <jdk>1.4</jdk>
      </activation>

      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>jdk14</id>
          <name>Repository for JDK 1.4 builds</name>
          <url>http://www.myhost.com/maven/jdk14</url>
          <layout>default</layout>
          <snapshotPolicy>always</snapshotPolicy>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
    </profile>
    -->

    <profile>
        <id>nexus</id>

        <repositories>
            <repository>
                <id>public</id>
                <url>http://192.127.10.23:8081/nexus/content/groups/public </url>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
            </repository>
            <repository>
                <id>thirdparty</id>
                <url>http://192.127.10.23:8081/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty/ </url>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
            </repository>
            <repository>
                <id>snapshots</id>
                <url>http://192.127.10.23:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/ </url>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
            </repository>
            <repository>
                <id>releases</id>
                <url>http://192.127.10.23:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases/ </url>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
            </repository>
        </repositories>
    </profile>

    <!--
     | Here is another profile, activated by the system property 'target-env' with a value of 'dev',
     | which provides a specific path to the Tomcat instance. To use this, your plugin configuration
     | might hypothetically look like:
     |
     | ...
     | <plugin>
     |   <groupId>org.myco.myplugins</groupId>
     |   <artifactId>myplugin</artifactId>
     |   
     |   <configuration>
     |     <tomcatLocation>${tomcatPath}</tomcatLocation>
     |   </configuration>
     | </plugin>
     | ...
     |
     | NOTE: If you just wanted to inject this configuration whenever someone set 'target-env' to
     |       anything, you could just leave off the <value/> inside the activation-property.
     |
    <profile>
      <id>env-dev</id>

      <activation>
        <property>
          <name>target-env</name>
          <value>dev</value>
        </property>
      </activation>

      <properties>
        <tomcatPath>/path/to/tomcat/instance</tomcatPath>
      </properties>
    </profile>
    -->
  </profiles>

  <!-- activeProfiles
   | List of profiles that are active for all builds.
   |
  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>alwaysActiveProfile</activeProfile>
    <activeProfile>anotherAlwaysActiveProfile</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
  -->
</settings>

注：

eclipse更新maven的时候，不小心手一抖，点上了Disable Maven Nature，然后工程右键菜单中的Maven栏就不见了！

其实这是把maven工程转换成了一般工程，再转回来就好了。

maven工程转为一般工程： 工程右键--->Maven--->Disable Maven Nature转为一般工程。

一般工程转为maven工程： 工程右键--->Configure--->Convert to Maven Project转为maven工程。

参考推荐：

maven （官方）

ant （官方）

Linux 搭建 Nexus 和 Maven（推荐）

maven常用命令介绍

很全的mvn介绍

Maven Getting Started Guide （官方命令）

原文： Linux搭建maven