Automatic download of resources not found in ibiblio

[Sancho Neves-Graca]

For resources not found in ibilio, the element <url> can be used to 
display an address where the resource can be fetched. However, this is 
not really in accordance with one of the objectives of maven, mainly to 
provide a build system independent of the local environment. I dread 
the idea of writing instructions about how to save an archive necessary 
for my application in the local maven repository. It would be a major 
putoff for many readers of the book and a source of errors. It could be 
argued that the resource should exist in ibiblio, but this is not a 
realistic workaround. Some resources simply can not be uploaded, either 
because of its pre-release status, for licensing constraints or simply 
to avoid the awkward upload requests for ibiblio. Would it not be 
necessary to implement automatic download from the specified URL should 
it not exist in the local repository? A workaround has been previously 
suggested in this mailing list (add URLs to maven.repo.remote) but 
using the <url> element is much more intuitive (it is not intuitive as 
of now, where this element is used only for documentation purposes).

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