Humberto N. Castejon Martinez
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:11:13 -0800
One of the reasons for me to use pax-runner is to be able to distribute applications in an easy and simple way. I want to avoid end-users needing to install maven or nexus. It is great to distribute pax-runner together with a runner.args file. That's all! My end-users will run several applications separately, each one on its own Java virtual machine. But those applications have common dependencies. In that scenario, they will have to run several instances of pax-runner, and each of those pax-runner instances will download all the needed dependencies on its own. It would be great if that could be avoided, that is, if one pax-runner instance could benefit from the bundles already downloaded by another pax-runner instance. And that ccould be done with a local common repository. You mention there is a maven resolver that saves the artifacts to the local repository. Is it possible to use/have access to that resolver? Cheers, Humberto
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alin Dreghiciu <adreghi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Nope. Why? Because we do have an internal maven resolver as embedding maven > was not an option . We do have another maven resolver on the works which is > based on maven , which will indeed save the artifacts to your local > repository. > We deliberately did not wanted to save files to local maven repository in > order to not affect in any way your local maven install. > > If connection is a problem for you and you do not want to re-download, just > use a Nexus. Put nexus on your machine, set it up to proxy the repositories > you need and then use the --repositories option to point to local nexus. > And if you do not want to set that option all the time you can put it in > $home/.pax/runner/runner.args file. > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Humberto N. Castejon Martinez < > humca...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi! >> Is there any way I can make Pax Runner to store the bundles it downloads >> in a local repository? >> Imagine you do not have Maven installed in your machine (otherwise you do >> not need pax-runner and can just run "mvn pax:provision"), and thus do not >> have a local repository. You use pax to run an application that uses bundles >> X, Y, Z. The first time you run that application, all those bundles are >> downloaded, together with the osgi-framework bundles. Now, imagine that you >> want to run another application that uses the same bundles as the >> formerapplication. When you run this new application, pax downloads again >> bundles X,Y,Z, plus the osgi-framework bundles. And everytime a new >> application is run, the bundles are yet again downloaded. This is >> unfortunate, specially if the internet connection is bad and there are many >> bundles that have to be downloaded. So it would be great if Pax could store >> the bundles it downloads in a local repository, as maven does. >> Cheers, >> Humberto >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> general mailing list >> general@lists.ops4j.org >> http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> >> > > > -- > Alin Dreghiciu > Software Developer > My profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alindreghiciu > My blog: http://adreghiciu.wordpress.com > http://sonatype.com - Sonatype - The Maven Company > http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation > Software. > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java - Domain Driven Development. >
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