Maven can be as simple or as complicated as you’d like. The maven command line interface is mvn. You can quickly find the version using the –version option: mvn –version This is useful for a lot, but most notably to see where Maven is, which is in the home line. You can then create a project by using the archetype:generate option. Let’s say I wanted to create an artifactID of Precache with a standard environment (DarchetypeArtifactId) that doesn’t need to be interactive. That would look as follows using the mvn command: mvn archetype:generate –DgroupId=com.precache –DartifactId=precache –DarchetypeArtifactId=maven–archetype–quickstart –DinteractiveMode=false This creates a directory in Maven with a full hierarchy that matches what maven will…