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These pages describes how to use the popular Maven with the most common Java IDEs

• Using the M2Eclipse Maven Plugin in Eclipse

• Using the Maven plugin for Eclipse

• Using Maven In Intellij IDEA

• Using Maven In Netbeans

For groups of developers working on limited internet connections it may be worth setting up a Maven proxy to reduce the amount of traffic required for Maven development. See Setting up a Maven proxy server for instructions on setting up the Nexus proxy server.

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• In Linux: Add a file called ".mavenrc" to your home directory with this content:

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  MAVEN_OPTS="$MAVEN_OPTS -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"

• In Windows: Add a new environment variable called MAVEN_OPTSand set it to

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  -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

• In Eclipse: Within the relevant Run Configuration, select the JRE tab and set the VM Argumentsto

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  -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

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