1. Maven automatically downloads jars that the project.xml file claims are needed for the build and stores them permanently in a local repository. Once you have them, online access to the jars is no longer necessary. However, due to rapid evolution of Geronimo, the set of jars that are required changes often. You can try to download all the required jars by hand and put them in the local maven repository, but I predict you would spend several hours more than maven would. It is also possible that not all the jars listed as required dependencies are in fact required. I haven't thought of a good way to deal with this problem.
2. Currently, the non-jar online dependencies have nothing to do with maven: they are caused by xmlbeans looking for schemas online during the build. Before xmlbeans, there were similar problems with the DOM parser. I'm hoping this problem will get solved soon but do not consider it the most critical issue we have at the moment. xmlbeans v2 has a solution, and I have asked the xmlbeans team to consider backporting the solution to v1.
In any case, having an offline capable build is clearly highly desirable.
thanks david jencks
On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 11:56 PM, Mike Kenny - CPX Mngd Services wrote:
From: Srinath Perera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note: Please sombody do me a favour if possible (Sorry if this is straight
foward Q ... I am reading abut maven .. want get answers yet)
1) I am having trouble runing the maven build (I can't afford to download
all the jar on time of build ..will take hours :( ... I have all jar's
locally How can I use it)
2)for the sake of people(including me ) who want to run the maven offline
can we have a alternative build file. I will commit it but prob is am
can't figure out how to do it yet. :(
For what it is worth I also believe that there should be an offline means
of building. Maybe, instead of downloading all of the jars, just download
a list of required jars with version numbers and/or check sums. Then have
maven issue warnings for those jars that are out of date.
Mike
