jars with no pom.xml available - what to do next ?

2015-06-08 Thread Zk W
Hi All We have a few open source jars that couldnt be found in Open Maven Central repository for their pom.xml files. We like to use these for dependencies management in our main pom.xml. 1) What can we do to vet those jars with no pom.xml files and make them compliant for our use ? 2) How do we

Re: jars with no pom.xml available - what to do next ?

2015-06-08 Thread Baptiste Mathus
Well, the other way, which I would recommend even more is to try and match the closest possible public version, then use it as a dependency. Then see if everything compiles and re-test the product carefully. That would be a correct long-term solution. Housing a wildly uncontrolled modified version

Re: jars with no pom.xml available - what to do next ?

2015-06-08 Thread Zk W
Hi Baptiste Thanks for responding. We already did your suggested step with Central Maven repo and couldnt find their GAV values unfortunately. We suppose we'll use fake GAV values then. We like to avoid missing these jars GAV coordinates if they really exist out there outside of Central Maven

Re: jars with no pom.xml available - what to do next ?

2015-06-08 Thread Baptiste Mathus
Hi, Not sure I understand.So guessing: you are somehow migrating from a typical old-school project with jars committed in the project as-is, and you don't know the version and so on. If so, then here's how I would proceed: * compute the sha-1 hash of those jars * search them though Central