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Those are just alternatives. Literally the first option they list is to just download the jar and run it manually, because this tool truly doesn't need any ins

• devman0 2y ago
  I haven't been in the java ecosystem in a while, but when I was using Maven you could just download the portable version and run it, and towards the tail end you could just include a simple mvn build shim that would pull down the correct version of maven and run it in a portable way (I think this was an idea borrowed from Gradle). Maven itself, afterall, was nothing more than a java application (as was Ant before it).