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Maven Wrapper Distribution
| Last Published: 2025-09-08
Version: 3.3.4
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Maven Wrapper Distribution
Maven Wrapper Distribution provides the distribution zip files containing mvnw/mvnw.cmd scripts and everything that has to be installed into a project wanting to use Maven Wrapper.
Distributions types share the same base structure:
mvnw
mvnw.cmd
.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
but every distribution has specific content to manage different strategies to get maven-wrapper.jar:
- only-script: the new lite implementation of mvnw/mvnw.cmd scripts will download the maven directly with wget or curl on *nix, or PowerShell on Windows, then exec/call the original mvn/mvn.cmd scripts of the downloaded maven distribution, skipping maven-wrapper.jar.
- script: mvnw/mvnw.cmd scripts will download maven-wrapper.jar with wget or curl on *nix, or PowerShell on Windows
- bin (default): no need to download maven-wrapper.jar binary, it is directly provided and used from project source tree (if stored in source control):
.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
- source: on *nix, if wget and curl are not available, mvnw script will compile MavenWrapperDownloader.java source then run the class to download maven-wrapper.jar:
.mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java
Distribution can be installed in a project either by unpacking zip archive by hand, or by using wrapper:wrapper.
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