I've just begun to use maven for building. For jars that are in ibiblio/maven, it's really nice. Sometimes I need a jar that isn't hosted there. For instance, we're using tomcat 5.0.18, and it's ant deployer integration.
What is a good practice for when a jar is not hosted by ibiblio? Also, does anyone know if the new tomcat 5.0.18 (and especially catalina-deployer.jar) will be released or where?
We have set up a local repository, and include it in the project.properties file for each project:
maven.repo.remote=http://our.local/repository,http://www.ibiblio.org/ maven
Set up the local repository using the same structure as iBiblio or your local Maven repo -- in fact, I seeded ours with the JARs I had already downloaded from iBiblio, as a cheap way of making a kind of mirror.
Regarding Apache jars, the Apache folks are working on a scheme to mirror jars into iBiblio, but that will take a little time to come up to speed.
Joe
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