Maven integration with Eclipse

Maven is a popular tool that is being used by most of the developers for building and deploying the projects. I am dedicating this post towards the configuration of maven with eclipse and AEM. The basic assumption here is you have a running AEM instance on your machine.
Let’s start,
Setting up Maven on your Machine
· Download Maven from here in the binary version
· Extract the zip file in the destination folder of your choice, extracted folder which contains bin, boot, conf, lib subfolders

· Next we must set the environment variables
o Right-click on ‘My Computer’ and select ‘Properties’.
o Click the Advanced system settings link
o Click Environment Variables. In the section User variables, create new variable M2_HOME
o Set M2_HOME path as shown below [I have extracted maven in C:/ directory]

o Then, add the path of bin folder in Path variable, as shown below
o Close all remaining windows by clicking OK

· Now let’s verify maven configurations using command prompt



Congratulations, you have configured the maven correctly in your system.
How to Configure maven with Eclipse
· Download Eclipse from Official website by clicking here
· Unzip the downloaded file and start the eclipse [No need of installation] by running an eclipse.exe file from the extracted folder.
· The workspace setup Dialog will open, select the path of desired workspace location convenient to you and click ‘OK’

· Eclipse will open, now close the welcome screen and click on help > Install New Software.. As shown

· Please select ‘All Available Sites‘ from dropdown in the field labelled “Work with”. Use the search to find and select maven plugins : m2e – Maven Integration for Eclipse. If the repository is missing with our eclipse installation then we will get no results for our search

· To get the results for search we will have to add mentioned url [http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases] manually in the ‘work with’ dropdown

· Select both plugins and click on next, click next again and accept terms and conditions and finish the process.
· After successful installation of plugins, eclipse will pop up a “restart required” request, allow eclipse to restart in order to complete the plugin installation.
Test the installations and configurations
· Import existing/downloaded AEM project from file system into eclipse






Click on Finish.
You will be able to see the installation progress on “console”

Congratulations, you have configured Maven with Eclipse successfully.