Installing Maven

If you want to use M.E.T.A., you need maven 1.0 (maven 2 is not currently supported). You can either get a binary or a source distribution from the Maven site.

Installing the M.E.T.A. plugin

After installing Maven, you can use the following maven command to download and install the plugin in one go:

maven -DartifactId=maven-turbine-plugin -DgroupId=turbine -Dversion=1.3 plugin:download

Installing the plugin through the plugin:download is the preferred to go. Alternatively, you can get it from the Turbine download page.

To install it manually, you copy this jar file into your local plugin directory, which is either referenced by MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL/plugins or the global plugins directory at MAVEN_HOME/plugins. Which one to use depends on your maven installation. You find some documentation on how to do this on the maven install page.

After the installation, run maven -g and check whether the following targets are displayed in the goal list:

[turbine]                           ( NO DEFAULT GOAL )
  deploy  ......................... Deploys the Application into a local web
                                    container for testing
  install-libs  ................... updates the libraries for an inplace
                                    application
  setup  .......................... Setup a new Turbine web application
  sql  ............................ Build the SQL files necessary for the
                                    application
  war  ............................ Generate a Turbine based Web application (
                                    war)

You are now ready to use M.E.T.A. Continue to the Getting Started page.