maven error when running in cygwin?

Question

I have cygwin in Windows 7 and downloaded and installed maven \"binaries\" and have the following set

export JAVA_HOME=/cygdrive/c/java/jdk1.7.0_11
export MA         


        

Answer 1

Maven with Cygwin - Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly

The "alias mvn=mvn.bat" answer toward the bottom of above post worked for me. However, is this THE solution?