From the course: Building RESTful Web Services with DropWizard

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Initial setup with Maven

Initial setup with Maven

- [Instructor] In order to get started with Drop Wizard, we need to set it all up with Maven. So let's go ahead and do that. First, in order to set up a new project with Maven, you need to have it installed into your system. So to install Maven, what you need to do is go to this page first, so maven.apache.org. And then go into this section here. So download the files, install them. So to install it you click on install and then follow the instructions for Windows or Linux or Mac at the bottom here, which is Unix-based operating systems. Once you have Maven installed onto your system, open up your favorite editor. In this case, I'm going to open VS Code. And then what I'm going to do is open up a terminal inside of VS Code. So I'm going to click on terminal, new terminal. And then I'm going to select where or which directory I'm going to basically install my applications. So right now, this is the main user inside of…

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