Getting started with the Quarkus Maven plugin

In order to scaffold our first Quarkus application, we will be using Maven, which is the most common software and release management tool available. It is used by a variety of developers, mostly because it offers the following:

• A standard structure for all your projects
• Centralized and automatic management of dependencies

Maven is distributed in several formats for the user's convenience. You can download it from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi.

Once you've downloaded Maven, do the following:

1. Unzip the distribution archive (for example, apache-maven-3.6.1-bin.zip) to the directory that you want Maven to be installed in (for example, in your $HOME/apache folder):

$ mkdir $HOME/apache
$ unzip $HOME/Downloads/apache-maven-3.6.1-bin.zip -d $HOME/apache 

2. Add the Maven libraries to your system path, as shown in the following...