I think 90% of your questions are answered in the online documentation about the resolvers http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/resolvers.html
1.1) You can specify the location that ivy uses to download the artifacts, they have to go somewhere ... 1.2) You can publish locally or specify a different (filesystem) repository using resolvers. 2.1) You only need to publish an item once, this is a good practice to get in the habit of doing 3.1) You can create a jar classpath by using the known location of the jars you downloaded step (1.1) and the fileset tag in ant, that can be used to set a property in any which can be written out to a file. WIWD If your ant task deploys the artifact to the webshpere I would copy any artifacts downloaded to a specific location and use this location to build the manifest classpath. 4.1) Once again this is a resolver setting, you can specify how long an item is "valid" in your cache. Hope this helps Nz On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Garner, Shawn <garner.sh...@principal.com>wrote: > I haven't had any response to any of this yet. > Can anyone help me or offer any guidance? > > Thanks, > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Garner, Shawn [mailto:garner.sh...@principal.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:14 AM > To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org > Subject: questions on ivy usage/setup > > I am doing a sample evaluation of Ivy and seeing how we can incorporate it > into both our continuous integration build which uses ANT scripts today and > also we'll need it to work for developer's IDE (RAD) on their workstations. > We have some custom ant tasks which do quite a bit of work of dependency > and classpath resolution already but I'm not sure if custom ant tasks are > the best thing. > I have a few questions on use of Ivy. > > Question 1. > We use Websphere and a lot of our apps either depend on one of the runtimes > of 6.1 or 7.0 and/or one of it's JDK's 1.5 or 1.6. > I wrote an ivy file and installed it in my ivy repository (artifactory) > which works however: > 1) I don't like that it copies the JARs to my provided configuration > directory (also the cache) for each project. > 2) I don't want to re-publish it to my repository (artifactory) if we apply > patches to the runtimes or jdks. > I'd like to use the FileSystemResolver and use symbolic links however it > doesn't seem like it's setup to use something that's organized in an Ivy > repository layout which Websphere does not obey whatsoever. > Do I have to write a custom resolver to do this? If so is there any > documentation on how to do this? > > Question 2. > Currently we build EJB, Web Projects, and Utility Jars that depend on Jars > in the EAR file. > Sometimes it's just Jars that contain properties files or generated content > that is generated from a temporary project then jar'd up and no formal > project is kept. > Is there any way to find (resolve, retrieve) those jars without publishing > them? It seems kind of silly to publish/resolve/retrieve them to the > repository if they are only ever used in building one ear. > > Question 3. > How do others handle modifying the MANIFEST.MF file for Class-Path > attribute? > My understanding is unless the EJB, War, or utility jar in the EAR declare > it in their manifest file that Websphere won't load it. > With the dynamic nature of ivy I expected there to be something to help > with this but didn't find it. > Sometimes you need a runtime jar declared in there and sometimes you need a > compile or default config jar in there. > It would be nice if there were a manifest section and you could generate > the manifest from the dependencies somehow. > > Question 4. > I have my artifactory repository installed locally I'm sure everything is > cached in my local cache and also in artifactory. > However if I disconnect my laptop from the internet (I know it's weird > today) I would like it to retrieve everything from the cache if it can't > connect. > It seemed like my builds would fail if I was disconnected. > Is there a way to do this if there is no internet connectivity? I wasn't > seeing any configurations to say default to local cache if it's there. > Currently I'm using the URL resolver pointing to artifactory for local > projects (internal projects) and another ibiblio resolver point to > artifactory for remote repositories. > > > I appreciate any help or advice others have on this. > Shawn > > > > > -----Message Disclaimer----- > > This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the individual or > entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is > privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. > If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or > copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > reply email to conn...@principal.com and delete or destroy all copies of > the original message and attachments thereto. 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