Maven can't locate JAVA_HOME

Question

I installed maven and added it to the path in my user variable but when i ran maven -v command from my command prompt, it showed that "maven is not recognized as an internal or external command ... ". When i run SET JAVA_HOME command it shows that the path to my jdk is okay. Before installing maven i deleted my old jdk 1.8.0 and installed jdk 1.8.0_201, whenever i start my netbeans IDE now it brings up a dialog box showing "Cannot locate java installation in the specified jdkhome: C\Program Files\Java\jdk 1.8.0 Do you want to try to use default version?" When i click yes, my netbeans IDE works perfectly. I think the issue with the maven and jdk are related, i am using windows 8.1 OS. Can anyone please tell me how to get maven working? Thanks for your help in advance.

Answer 1

You call Maven with mvn. If calling mvn -v does not work, mvn is probably not on your path. Make sure that the bin directory in your Maven installation is on your Windows PATH.