Install Maven 3.0.3

Maven 3.0.3 is compatible for Maven 2 project.
It’s quite easy to install it on Windows and Ubuntu. Take Ubuntu for example, just run following commands :
Install Maven 3.0.3 in Ubuntu 10.10

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$ wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/www.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz $ tar -zvxf apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz $ sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.0.3 /usr/local $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn

However, if you still have to use Maven 2 and 3 together, in Windows , you can create following bat files:
Mave2.bat

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@ECHO off set M2_HOME=C:\Program Files\Apache\apache-maven-2.2.1 set org_path=%PATH% path %PATH%;%M2_HOME%\bin call mvn %* path %org_path%

Mave3.bat

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@ECHO off set M2_HOME=C:\Program Files\Apache\apache-maven-3.0.3 set org_path=%PATH% path %PATH%;%M2_HOME%\bin call mvn %* path %org_path% --------------------------------- apt-get install maven2