Can I use Maven without setting the Environment variable?

Question

I want to use Maven for my project.

In my office computer , I don't have the Admin privilege . Hence I am not able to set the "System Variable". I have access only to "User Variable" where I can set only the Java_Home.

Can I use Maven without adding the M2_Home and editing the Path variable ?

Answer 1

It depends if you are using it inside an ide or building project from terminal.

• If you are using an IDE, there is probably an embedded maven ( there is one inside Eclipse and Intellij IDEA)

• If you are building using CLI you can invoke maven using the full path for instance :

  /home/<your_folder>/tools/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin/mvn clean install from your project path

Answer 2

You could set the M2_HOME user variable even you are not an administrator, and the variable path is unnecessary, you could easily do the same task referencing the maven fullpath bin directory.