Hello everyone. I've just started using Maven 2; I was using Maven 1
before. It's pretty cool, especially the transitive dependencies.
In my Maven 1 project that used Axis web services, I had to specify a
litany of dependencies. Here's a bit of my old project.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>axis</groupId>
<artifactId>axis</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>axis</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxrpc</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>axis</groupId>
<artifactId>saaj</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-discovery</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-discovery</artifactId>
<version>0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>wsdl4j</groupId>
<artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>classworlds</groupId>
<artifactId>classworlds</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
Perhaps one or two of those aren't actually needed via axis but any way
it sure is a bunch--making a perfect candidate to take advantage of the
Maven 2 dependency system.
I would expect that for axis in Maven 2, there would be a pom (or
whatever) in the repository with these dependencies registered
(including "scope" entries as appropriate). BUT, the pom here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/axis/axis/1.1/axis-1.1.pom
Lists no dependencies at all. Am I looking in the wrong place or
perhaps I don't quite get the concept or perhaps axis's pom is
deficient. If it's the last one then who do I prod to correct this?
~ David Smiley
