# bring down maven
mkdir maven
cd maven
-curl -O http://apache.claz.org/maven/maven-3/3.3.9/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz
-tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz
+# download maven from automatically selected mirror server
+curl -vLO "https://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi?cca2=us&preferred=http://apache.claz.org/&action=download&filename=maven/maven-3/3.3.9/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz"
+if ! tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz ; then
+ echo "Installation of maven has failed!"
+ exit 1
+fi
ls -l
export PATH=${PATH}:${WORK_DIR}/maven/apache-maven-3.3.9/bin
${WORK_DIR}/maven/apache-maven-3.3.9/bin/mvn -v