First Maven Project

Configuration steps for create simple maven project

Download and install  jdk-7u3-windows-i586  and setup the class path

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u3-download-1501626.html

Download and install apache-maven-3.0.4 and setup the path

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/source/apache-maven-3.0.4-src.zip

Open command line and type "mvn --version" to verify the successful installation

If installation is correct the following message will be shown

Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 00:44:56-0800)
Maven home: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-3.0.4
Java version: 1.7.0_03, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_03\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "x86", family: "windows"

Setup proxy sever to create a maven project

Open "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-3.0.4\conf " folder 

Edit the settings.xml file using the following code with appropriate proxy details

<proxies>    

    <proxy>

      <id>optional</id>

      <active>true</active>

      <protocol>http</protocol>

      <username>proxy_netuser</username>

      <password> proxy_netuser </password>

      <host>proxy.host.net</host>

      <port>80</port>

     <nonProxyHosts>local.net|some.host.com</nonProxyHosts>

    </proxy>   

  </proxies>

git hub proxy setup

 git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080