diff --git a/share/trick/makefiles/config_user.mk.in b/share/trick/makefiles/config_user.mk.in
index a7d8db50..c0f7c6b9 100644
--- a/share/trick/makefiles/config_user.mk.in
+++ b/share/trick/makefiles/config_user.mk.in
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SWIG   = @SWIG@
 PYTHON = @PYTHON@
 CLANG  = @CLANG@
 TEE    = @TEE@
+MVN    = @MVN@
 
 USE_JAVA = @USE_JAVA@
 JAVAC  = @JAVA_CC@
diff --git a/trick_source/java/CMakeLists.txt b/trick_source/java/CMakeLists.txt
index 0a2d648e..f3c7836e 100644
--- a/trick_source/java/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/trick_source/java/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 # Build Java
 ###############################################################
 
-add_custom_target(java COMMAND mvn package -Dcmake=true -DbuildDirectory=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/libexec/trick/java/build WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
+add_custom_target(java COMMAND ${MAVEN_EXECUTABLE} -q package -Dcmake=true -DbuildDirectory=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/libexec/trick/java/build WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
diff --git a/trick_source/java/Makefile b/trick_source/java/Makefile
index df3e3d6c..5b2b307d 100644
--- a/trick_source/java/Makefile
+++ b/trick_source/java/Makefile
@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
 TRICK_HOME := $(abspath $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))../..)
+JAVA_BUILD_DIR = ${TRICK_HOME}/libexec/trick/java/build
+include ${TRICK_HOME}/share/trick/makefiles/Makefile.common
 
 all: ${TRICK_HOME}/libexec/trick/java/build
 	@echo "Java build successful"
 
 ${TRICK_HOME}/libexec/trick/java/build:
-	mvn package 
+	@echo "Building java application... For details see ${JAVA_BUILD_DIR}/maven.out"
+	@mkdir ${JAVA_BUILD_DIR}
+	@${MVN} package &> ${JAVA_BUILD_DIR}/maven.out
 
 javadoc:
-	mvn javadoc:javadoc
+	${MVN} javadoc:javadoc
 
 clean:
-	mvn clean
+	@rm -rf ${JAVA_BUILD_DIR}
+	@echo java build directory cleaned.
+
+