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ram
ram

Reputation: 251

Must you create the .m2/repository folder manually

Will the .m2 folder be created automatically by Maven, or do you need to create it manually?

What does the .m2/repository, contain and from where does it come?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 57918

Answers (2)

chad
chad

Reputation: 7537

First, it will be created by Maven when you execute a build, such as:

mvn clean install

Note, you could find this out just be executing mvn your self ;)

Second, the contents of .m2 are:

A settings.xml file that contains global settings for all maven executions.

A folder called repository that holds all of the local copies of various maven artifacts, either caches of artifacts pulled down from remote repositories, such as Maven Central, or artifacts built by your local maven builds. The artifacts are organized in there in folder structures that mirror the groupId's of the artifacts.

Upvotes: 18

asgoth
asgoth

Reputation: 35829

It will be created automatically. The repository folder (also called local repository) will download its content from repositories specified in your user's settings.xml, the global settings.xml and possibly in your poms.

Most artifacts will be downloaded from repo1.maven.org.

Upvotes: 12

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