Thanks for doing this. It is a huge step in the right direction. I only wish you hadn't decided to create your own release repository, and instead would use the maven central repository. Perhaps you may consider this for the next level of making things easy for your users.
In my project, I have many dependencies. If each project set up their own repository, I would have a huge repository section in my pom and each repository would have to be checked for each artifact. Moreover, there are many mirrors of the central repository so there isn't a single point of failure for retrieving an artifact, whereas it is unlikely that each individual project will be able to provide mirroring, and even if they did, I would have to manage referencing all those mirrors. I know many projects have set up an automatic syncing with with the central repository, so that they don't have to do any extra work (after the syncing is set up) to publish releases to the central repo. Again, I am most appreciative of what you have done. I just hope it is not a part of a trend for everyone to set up their own release repositories (and yes, restlet is not the only one but thankfully they are still few in number). -- Mark R On 5/3/07, Thierry Boileau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
**Hello all, One the most frequent enhancement request that we received was to improve our support for Apache Maven <maven.apache.org> technology. We initially responded by shipping some Maven POM files within our Restlet distribution. This enabled users to upload those JAR files to a local Maven repository, using a script like the one available in our Wiki. But, this was clearly not easy enough and forced users to download the full distribution for each new version released, instead of just updating a couple of JARs. We also had issues with some third-party dependencies which aren't available in public Maven repositories, like the db4o, AsyncWeb or Simple. We listened to your feed-back and decided to launch dedicated Maven repository. It is freely accessible from http://maven.restlet.org and contains all Restlet JARs and third party dependencies that aren't available in the main public Maven repository. It will be automatically refreshed on the 1st and on the 15th of each month. Best regards, Thierry Boileau
