Install Maven and Gradle
Install Apache Maven and Gradle on Windows, macOS and Linux, configure JAVA_HOME and PATH, verify the setup, create a first project with each, understand why project wrappers usually make global installs unnecessary, configure proxies and mirrors, and fix common errors.
CodexBash, , 5 min read
Maven and Gradle are the two build tools of the Java world: they download libraries, compile code, run tests and package applications. Our Maven versus Gradle article compared them; this guide gets them installed and working on your machine. The surprise for many beginners is that most real projects do not need either installed globally at all, because they ship a wrapper. We cover both the wrapper and global installation, plus the configuration and errors that trip people up.
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