Hi, Fernando, I'm excited to try this out.
We have RHN Satellite, and we upload our internal RPMS to that. The RHN Satellite then pushes our software to our various server farms. I think we have somewhere around 100-200 RHEL servers grabbing software updates from that RHN Satellite. So we've found RPM to be a great way to deploy our software (always webapps) to hundreds of machines. But we've had little control over the jars that developers throw into "WEB-INF/lib". It would be great to have as many of those jars as possible coming from the RHEL/JPackage subscription!!!! By the way, just a note to everyone at JPackage: you guys really saved us with your JVM and Tomcat RPMS about 3 years ago! They were such a seamless fit with our infrastructure. Very high quality stuff, in my opinion. yours, Julius On Fri, 2006-27-10 at 18:47 -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote: > Julius Davies wrote: > > Where I work, we want to start using Maven for our own development. But > > we also want all the jar dependencies we declare in our apps to come > > from our RHEL subscription. So figuring out a way to achieve that would > > be really useful! > > > > I have good news for you: that is already available with our new JPP 1.7 > maven2 package. > > At JPackage (as well as for RHEL systems) we have already been using the > /usr/share/java as a local maven repository and all software that we > build that is maven based were built using the JARs from there. > > > > +1 > > > > We package our own apps into RPM for ease of internal deployment, so I > > guess we would need to run this pom2spec thing on our own applications. > > > > That is if you want to build an RPM with your software. > > Which is not a bad idea: an RPM is a very handy way to distribute Linux > software. When one of us around here at work wants the others to try > something, we put together a basic RPM so people can > install/upgrade/uninstall it easily, which has proved to be a big > incentive for people to try things. > > > But we also need all the "official" RHEL jars in a maven repository for > > all of our developers (who might be on windows) to use directly from the > > pom.xml files, with no mention of RPM. > > > > Already done. > > I will be uploading the latest maven2 RPMs from Deepak into JPP 1.7 over > the weekend. Give it a try on Monday. I believe there is some > documentation under 'doc'. If you need help to use it or has any > questions, please ask here (in this list). > > > So I think we need pom2spec on one side, but we also need "library of > > all redhat jar file rpms" to "maven dependency repository " on the other > > side. > > > > Done :-) > > > Best regards, > Fernando -- Julius Davies Senior Application Developer, Technology Services Credit Union Central of British Columbia http://www.cucbc.com/ Tel: 416-652-0183 Cel: 647-232-7571 1441 Creekside Drive Vancouver, BC Canada V6J 4S7
