We just use a corporate repo for things like javamail, jms and commercial
stuff.
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dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Brill Pappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/05/2004 01:01:08 AM:
> Aside: For any Maven developers paying attention here... this is
> something that needs some special attention as its messy as hell and is
> a (very) common problem.
>
> What I would suggest is a standard dir in the project itself (like src
> or target) which is the projects "private" repository... this dir would
> have the same structure as the public repository and be included
> automatically in dependency checks if it exists. Such a modification
> would solve this problem once and for all. umm... don't forget to
> document it...
>
> ============================
> Now back to our regularly scheduled reply:
>
> Ahh, you mean for dependencies that are not included on ibiblio (or some
> other repository)...
>
> I do a special setup for that stuff.
>
> create dir src/libs
> add the jars to that dir, and include a version.
> add the dependency as normal to the project.xml file.
> add a line in the project.properties for the override.
> add a goal in the maven.xml that adds the jar to your local repository
> from the src/libs dir.
>
>
> I usually have to do this with Sun libs that can't be normally
> distributed, but I've also done it with libs that have no repository
> location.
>
> Example:
>
> The following example ensures that the javamail api which has no
> repository can be found by the project.
> Unfortunately not all plugins respect the jar override properties so the
> goal has to be included to copy the jar into the proper repository
> location. Note that this is a lot of extra work to add your libs, bit I
> find its worth the effort to have a clean dependency list and a "compile
> anywhere" source tree.
> FYI: I've used a couple of things that might not be obvious to someone
> new to Maven, such as the preGoal which in this case will execute before
> the java:compile goal does. You can specify a preGoal for any goal.
>
> in project.xml
> --------------------------------
> <dependency>
> <groupId>java</groupId>
> <artifactId>javamail</artifactId>
> <version>1.3.1</version>
> <type>jar</type>
> <properties>
> <war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
> </properties>
> </dependency>
>
> in project.properties
> --------------------------------*
> maven.jar.override=on
> maven.jar.javamail=${basedir}/src/libs/javamail-1.3.1.jar
> *
> in maven.xml
> --------------------------------
> <preGoal name="java:compile">
> <attainGoal name="copy-private-jars" />
> </preGoal>
>
> <goal name="copy-private-jars">
> <mkdir dir="${maven.repo.local}/java/jars" />
> <copy file="${maven.src.dir}/libs/javamail-1.3.1.jar"
> toDir="${maven.repo.local}/java/jars"/>
> </goal>
>
>
> - Brill Pappin
>
>
> Bill Madison wrote:
>
> >Thanks Matt,
> >
> >Isnt there a lib or something where I can point to,
> >instead of putting each and every jar as a dpendency,
> >thats a lot of cut and paste work and also most of the
> >thirdparty jars dont come with a version and as I see
> >the version is a requiredd element. Theres got to be a
> >better and easier way of doing this.
> >
> >The problem in my case is that we have 2 development
> >teams, and they put their jars in the IDE build path
> >and when it comes to integration/build I have to start
> >figuring out the version for each jar and start
> >putting them in the project.xml which is kind of
> >cumbersome. So trying to see if there is a better way
> >f doing this. Please let me know if you have a
> >solution for this.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >--- "matthew.hawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Bill Madison wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I am a newbie to Maven. And my question is, if my
> >>>project needs some 30 thirdparty jars, for each of
> >>>them do I need to put a <dependency> element in
> >>>
> >>>
> >>the
> >>
> >>
> >>>project.xml? Please let me know.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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