java - Checking Maven Version

Question

I have just installed maven. I downloaded distributive, extracted files and set bin value environment variables, but when I type mvn -version in CMD I am getting message:

'mvn' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I am writing project. I have one project DatabaseAPI where I have logic of database and POJO classes. second project is CoreAPI where I have some methods. For DatabaseAPI I make a jar file using eclipse (export -> jar). In core I add external jar (DatabaseAPI.jar). For CoreAPI I make a jar file using eclipse (export -> jar). In core I add external jar (CoreAPI.jar) and I tried to start tomcat (I have servlets in my project and swing too). I got error during starting and error is ClassNotFoundException (One of the classes in CoreAPI did not find). Is it problem of exporting using Eclipse ?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24221361/checking-maven-version

Answer 1

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mvn -v

or

mvn --version

Output:

Apache Maven 3.0.5 (...)
Maven home: ...
Java version: 1.8.0_60, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: ...
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "amd64", family: "dos"

The other command (mvn -version) works because it starts with mvn -v.
You can also try mvn -v123 and you'll get the same output.

Details:

mvn -h

or

mvn --help

Output:

...
-V,--show-version                      Display version information
                                       WITHOUT stopping build
-v,--version                           Display version information

Command is not recognized

Probably you are in one of the following 2 situations:

1. You didn't add the Maven to the Path
   (run ECHO.%PATH:;= & ECHO.% in cmd to see if you are in this situation).
   • go to Control PanelUser AccountsUser Accounts
     (or click on your photo from the start menu)
   • click Change my environment variables
   • click on New... and add:
     • M2_HOME=<your_path>
     • MAVEN_HOME=%M2_HOME%
     • MAVEN_BIN=%M2_HOME%in
   • click on Edit... and add the ;%MAVEN_BIN% at the end of the Path
2. You added it to the Path, but you didn't open a new command prompt.
   • open a new command prompt, because the environment variables are not updated automatically