In our Maven use, many times (for a new installation) Maven will fetch
Jars from a "central" Maven repository.
When running builds, Maven will query the "central" Maven repository to
see if more recent versions of a Jar are available, and if found, will
download them.
This page
http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-plugin-snapshot-repositories.html
suggests it may be possible to set up additional Maven repositories and
have them searched for things, ahead of the regular sites.
If so, I think we should do the following:
1) Create a repository (on Apache, if licensing permits) for anything
where we want more control over the updates.
2) Create a repository (probably not on Apache, for licensing reasons?)
where the Eclipse plugin jars with their sources and/or javaDocs can be
found.
3) Change our Maven profiles to use these ahead of other common Maven
repositories.
Do other projects using Maven do this?
Opinions?
-Marshall
