Hi, I was building a 3rd party application with a dependency on the Geronimo specs (jee)...and I could not get it to build because it was looking for
axis-saaj-1.3-r562247 For the life of me, I thought I had that usual maven corrupt repo issues and I wiped out my local repo...a number of times. I began looking through repos and sure enough it didn't exist. Well..I decided to look in our pom and I found: <axis2Version>1.3-r562247</axis2Version> Further discussion with others resulted in finding that we have a "special" repository that pulls these special versions. (Ok I forgot about that). This is going to be a problem for anyone who has a dependency on our jars (ie. wanting to use the specs jars for a web applications, etc). If I (a committer) had to go through this much trouble trying to figure out how to get that dependency...I can't imagine what the standard user will go through when writing a web or webservices application. The point I am making here is if we are going to have special versions of jars, we need to make these more readily available. Here are some options I thought of: A) Place the special jars in central so they are automatically available to others. (Easiest approach for the user - but we are going to have to convince other projects to put them out into their locations - that may prove difficult). B) Heavily, heavily document how to get around this problem by adding our repo to their pom. This should be easily Googled and placed in a FAQ, because I would hazard to guess this will be a frequent question. (probably the easiest approach for us, but this needs to be a short term solution - and its still a PITA for our users). C) Convince the other projects to get their releases in order and get good versions of their product on central. (Should do this regardless of any other option). D) Rename our special versions to g-axis-saaj-1.3-r562247 and house those under our own control (org.apache.geronimo...) in central on our next build (2.0.2). (The easy and quick, and very temprary fix!) Thoughts? Comments? Thanks, Jeff
