While trying to keep our third-party dependencies current, we found that [1] reports a version 1.1.1 available for javax.activation:activation ... yet no such artifact version appears to exist in the central maven2 repo.
On the other hand, [2] reports this version for the JavaBeans Activation Framework and references the repo at http://repository.jboss.com/maven2. According to content at [3], this version of JAF was announced on 2007-Oct-22. The final release is available separately and in Java SE 6 [presumably via subsequent updates]. Oddly, an out-of-the-box maven running on the command line can't resolve javax.activation:activation:1.1.1, but it seems that m2eclipse can ... suggesting that the IDE plugin is hitting the jboss repo [even when the installed maven conf/settings.xml doesn't define jboss as a <repository>]. Questions: Shouldn't this artifact version be available from the central repo? [Admittedly, the changes in the subject version appear to be minor.] Does m2eclipse hit the jboss repo by default [in addition to central, etc.]? Brad [1] http://www.mavenbrowser.com/pom-report.html [2] http://www.mavensearch.net/ [3] http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javabeans/jaf/
