MacSetup

Newer Apple Mac machines ship without the developer tools, and there is a package manager that will make maven installation much easier. Here's what we did to install everything on Wolf's new MacBook:


 * 1) Install Java SE.
 * 2) Install the Homebrew package, which in turn will prompt you to install the Apple developer tools package.
 * 3) Open a terminal window (under Applications/Utilities). Use brew to install maven as:
 * 4) Assuming you installed Java 8, edit (or create) .bash_profile in your home directory to add the line (note the backquotes):
 * 5) In the terminal window, issue the same command (You only have to do this once):
 * 6) Confirm that maven is working with the command: