Deron, I wonder what is the purpose of such application? Being a Maven user for several ears I never had a need to browse content of some jar classes in the Maven repository... not outside my ide anyways.
Also, from what I see, most of the information is already available from the repository index. Of course index does not include content of the jars and all the poms, but it still can be used to search trough them and it is far smaller then 10gb Tools like m2eclipse allow to search and open Maven poms directly from remote repositories. More over it allows to open pom editor from Navigate / Open Maven pom menu, from Maven Indexes view, from SVN//CVS Repositories view and even from History view. Then you can see the effective pom or resolved dependency hierarchy and navigate to other poms. If there is some interest, we could also show content of attached artifacts right in the pom editor (e.g. the sources or javadocs) regards, Eugene Deron Eriksson wrote: > > > Brian E Fox wrote: >> >> Hopefully they are using the indexes and not scraping the entire >> contents of the repos. >> > > Hi Brian, > To offer the search capabilities that Jarvana offers, we need to create > massive new search indexes (over 10GB in size currently) that include > information such as file content, locations of related source > code/javadocs, etc. We are trying to index all the files in the > repository, all the files in the archive files in the repository, and all > the content of all the files in the archive files in the repository. (We > actually don't index everything, but do try to index most things.) > > Currently, we update our repository files a couple times a month (nights > or weekends) via rsync. We alternate between different mirrors to try to > minimize any bandwidth costs to any particular host, since bandwidth can > get expensive when dealing with large quantities of data. (Also, I would > never want to spider central, since that would not be nice to do to the > web servers.) In the future, if Jarvana proves to be popular and we move > to a better server, I wouldn't be opposed to the idea of also becoming a > mirror. > > We are hopeful that Jarvana might make the lives of current Java/Maven > developers a little easier to justify its existence. We are also hopeful > that it might, in some small ways, encourage more people to adopt Java and > Maven. > > Let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions. > Deron Eriksson > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/New-Maven-Respository-Search-Application-tp21973961p22138077.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
