Maven Local Repository is a feature provided in Maven that allows you to manage local copies of your project’s dependencies. By default, Maven makes a copy of each dependency artifact that is used in your project and stores it in the local repository.

  • macOS – /Users/{username}/.m2/repository
  • Linux – /home/{username}/.m2/repository
  • Windows – c:Users{username}.m2repository

Customize Maven Local Repository

The settings.xml is the main configuration file of Maven. It is available for user-level or system-level configurations.

  • Global level: Is available at ${MAVEN_HOME}/conf/settings.xml is applied for all Maven users on the system that share the same installation.
  • User level: Can be found at ${HOME}/.m2/settings.xml. This is the user-specific configuration and overrides the global configuration.

To customize the local repository, edit settings.xml and change directory location with tag.

<settings xmlns=“http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.2.0”

          xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”

          xsi:schemaLocation=“http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.2.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.2.0.xsd”>

  /opt/maven_local_repo

The configuration file looks like the below:

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Maven local repository location

Define Maven Local Repository at Command Line

Changes made in settings.xml applied for all commands. We can also specify the local repository as a command line parameter using the maven.repo.local option. which allows us to pass the local repository location as a command-line parameter:

mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=/opt/maven_local_repository install

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned about setting the local repository path in Maven. This local repository is used to store project artifacts.

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