What's mdub?

This is a fork/translation of Doug Borg's gdub project to support the maven wrapper, which was designed to be analogous to the gradle wrapper.

mdub (mw on the command line) is a maven / mvn wrapper, mw invokes ./mvnw on projects where one is configured, and falls back to use the mvn from the $PATH if a wrapper is not available.

Installation

Check out a copy of the mdub repository. Then, either add the mdub bin directory to your $PATH, or run the provided install command with the location to the prefix in which you want to install mdub. The default prefix is /usr/local.

For example, to install mdub into /usr/local/bin:

git clone https://github.com/stormbeta/mdub.git
cd mdub
./install

Note: you may need to run ./install with sudo if you do not have permission to write to the installation prefix.

Aliasing the mvn command

For maximum fidelity add a mvn alias to mw to your shell's configuration file.

Example bash:

echo "alias mvn=mw" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

From now on you can just type mvn ... from wherever you are and mw takes care of the rest. Happiness ensues!

Why mdub?

Largely the same reasons as the gdub script, which you can read here. In particular, this allows you to run maven from any subdirectory of your project and have it use the logical pom to run.