On 14 October 2010 22:03, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/14/2010 3:11 PM, David Weintraub wrote: >> >> What? You want a GOOD Maven manual? Real programmers don't use >> manuals. > > Yeah, I know - they don't write them either (except for subversion, of > course). As you might guess, I'm more of a system administrator than a > programmer... > >> Fortunately, you don't really have to know too much about Maven if >> you're not a Java developer. The intricacies of the pom.xml file don't >> concern you. Possibly, the only Maven command you really have to know >> is "mvn deploy:deploy-file" which doesn't require a pom.xml file >> >> <http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-file-mojo.html>. >> And, if that command concerns you too much, you can simply revert to >> "curl". >> >> You do have to understand the Maven repository layout which is a >> fairly straight forward hierarchal affair and both Nexus and >> Artifactory cover that pretty well. > > Thanks - the piece I need is how to map our project tags and > branch/revision_numbers into the maven repo URLs, hopefully in a way that > wouldn't break it for actual maven use since we do have some java developers > here.
every artifact in the maven repository has a set of coordinates, known as GAV (though technically it is GAVCT) GroupId:ArtifactId:Version[:Classifier]:Type in the group id, you use reverse DNS name to establish ownership of the namespace, dot's are replaced by slashes... so one project I am working on at github uses the groupId com.github.stephenc.java-iso-tools as the project url is http://github.com/stephenc/java-iso-tools I have other things where I use groupIds starting with com.one-dash because I own the domain. The artifactId can be whatever you like (within reason) The version is a version number The classifier is similar to artifactId and this is more for side-artifacts... you probably don't want classifiers in most cases... side-artifacts would be things like javadocs... try to keep one GAV for one theing that you build, e.g. a separate GAV for the x86 and the ARM versions of your build rather than abuse classifiers [so that you play better with the java builds] to consturuct the url URL=${REPO_ROOT}/$(echo ${GROUP_ID} | sed -e "s:\.:/:g")/$ARTIFACT_ID/$VERSION/$ARTIFACT_ID-${CLASSIFIER}-${VERSION}.${TYPE} if you have a classifier and URL=${REPO_ROOT}/$(echo ${GROUP_ID} | sed -e "s:\.:/:g")/$ARTIFACT_ID/$VERSION/$ARTIFACT_ID-${VERSION}.${TYPE} if you don't -Stephen > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com >
