maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Horlock
Hi, could anyone explain to me the difference between maven archiva and a regular maven repository? The explanation I found on the site was pretty short - With Archiva, you can share artifacts with other developers... Isn't that exactly what the regular maven repository does? So why / when /

Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread Mick Knutson
if you have a maven repo, you have a LOCAL repo only. Now if you have a team, and want to setup a central repo and not use all the other external repo's (maven, codehaus, apache, jboss etc...), then you can have a central remote repo yourself with maven-proxy, or archiva. On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at

Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread Dennis Lundberg
We a few things written about this at: http://maven.apache.org/repository-management.html Peter Horlock wrote: Hi, could anyone explain to me the difference between maven archiva and a regular maven repository? The explanation I found on the site was pretty short - With Archiva, you can

RE: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread nicklist
are less used. So in short, it offers a few extra options. ;) Hth, Nick S. -Original Message- From: Peter Horlock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 17:38 To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: maven archiva vs. maven repo Hi, could anyone explain to me the difference between

Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Horlock
Well, we've got Maven running on a remote server, and I set this as our maven remote server. As far as I know we don't have additional proxy or so running. So I still don't know why I would need archiva. Peter

Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Horlock
What's snapshot purging??? access control (who may read/write), search for artifacts - do you define this for each file, or just general read access vs general write access? Archiva works as a mirror proxy, so each artifact you look up on the archiva repository, which isn't found, Archiva will

RE: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread nicklist
system like archive, but just a fast system like apache (I guess they use that). Hth, Nick S. -Original Message- From: Peter Horlock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 17:57 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo access control (who may read/write

RE: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread nicklist
tricky) Hth, Nick S. -Original Message- From: Peter Horlock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 17:51 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo Well, we've got Maven running on a remote server, and I set this as our maven remote server. As far as I know we

Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread Jason van Zyl
The best description of why repository managers exist and why you should use one is here: http://www.sonatype.com/book/reference/repository-manager.html# On 11-Apr-08, at 8:38 AM, Peter Horlock wrote: Hi, could anyone explain to me the difference between maven archiva and a regular maven

Re: maven archiva vs. maven repo

2008-04-11 Thread Trevor Torrez
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a very common pitfall Maven users can fall in. You are using a local repository as remote repository. I thought there was some information on the maven site about the differences between remote and local repositories, but