The AWS SDK for Java 1.x has entered maintenance mode as of July 31, 2024, and will reach end-of-support on December 31, 2025. We recommend that you migrate to the AWS SDK for Java 2.x to continue receiving new features, availability improvements, and security updates.

Use the SDK with Apache Maven

You can use Apache Maven to configure and build AWS SDK for Java projects, or to build the SDK itself.

Create a new Maven package

To create a basic Maven package, open a terminal (command-line) window and run:

mvn -B archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \
  -DgroupId=org.example.basicapp \
  -DartifactId=myapp

Replace org.example.basicapp with the full package namespace of your application, and myapp with the name of your project (this will become the name of the directory for your project).

By default, creates a project template for you using the quickstart archetype, which is a good starting place for many projects. There are more archetypes available; visit the Maven archetypes page for a list of archetypes packaged with . You can choose a particular archetype to use by adding the -DarchetypeArtifactId argument to the archetype:generate command. For example:

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp \
  -DgroupId=org.example.webapp \
  -DartifactId=mywebapp

Configure the SDK as a Maven dependency

To use the AWS SDK for Java in your project, you’ll need to declare it as a dependency in your project’s pom.xml file. Beginning with version 1.9.0, you can import individual components or the entire SDK.

Specifying individual SDK modules

To select individual SDK modules, use the AWS SDK for Java bill of materials (BOM) for Maven, which will ensure that the modules you specify use the same version of the SDK and that they’re compatible with each other.

To use the BOM, add a <dependencyManagement> section to your application’s pom.xml file, adding aws-java-sdk-bom as a dependency and specifying the version of the SDK you want to use:

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
      <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-bom</artifactId>
      <version>1.11.1000</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

To view the latest version of the AWS SDK for Java BOM that is available on Maven Central, visit: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bom. You can also use this page to see which modules (dependencies) are managed by the BOM that you can include within the <dependencies> section of your project’s pom.xml file.

You can now select individual modules from the SDK that you use in your application. Because you already declared the SDK version in the BOM, you don’t need to specify the version number for each component.

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-dynamodb</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

You can also refer to the AWS Code Sample Catalog to learn what dependencies to use for a given AWS service. Refer to the POM file under a specific service example. For example, if you are interested in the dependencies for the AWS S3 service, see the complete example on GitHub. (Look at the pom under /java/example_code/s3).

Importing all SDK modules

If you would like to pull in the entire SDK as a dependency, don’t use the BOM method, but simply declare it in your pom.xml like this:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
    <version>1.11.1000</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Build your project

Once you have your project set up, you can build it using Maven’s package command:

mvn package

This will create your –0—jar file in the target directory.

Build the SDK with Maven

You can use Apache Maven to build the SDK from source. To do so, download the SDK code from GitHub, unpack it locally, and then execute the following Maven command:

mvn clean install