Error in Maven build: mvn.bat not recognized

Question

While trying to build a Java project under NetBeans (with an external Maven configured), I got the following error:

\"C:\\Users......\\bin\\mvn.bat\"\" is

Answer 1

Maven 3.3+ has no more mvn.bat you should use version 2.5.2+ of the maven-release-plugin : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-902