As some others said, the real solution for you is to use a repository manager.
It will bring many advantages to manage binaries coming from outside and it 
will give you a transparent access to maven 1 and 2 repositories


On Oct 24, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Zak Mc Kracken wrote:

> Hi Anders,
> 
> thank you for your reply. Do you mean I can do the conversion as a repository 
> user? I need to access 3rd party repositories, I cannot change them. By the 
> way, this also means that "The 5 years is up" is not a message for me :-) 
> Maybe I could stop using java.net, but I have other dependencies in the same 
> situation that are not so easy to be moved out or upgraded (I should trace 
> all of them, check if there is a more recent version in M2 repos, 
> transitively check all the dependency tree, it was becoming a nightmare when 
> I decided that for the moment I won't migrate to M3, unless I can arrange M1 
> support in that version too).
> 
> Marco.
> 
> 
> 
> On 24/10/2010 20:25, Anders Hammar wrote:
>> And by the way, you should really try to stop using the java.net repo. I'll
>> quote Stephen Connolly, "friends don't let friends use the java.net maven
>> repositories". :-)
>> 
>> /Anders
>> 
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 21:22, Anders Hammar<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> 
>>> You need to get a repo manager like Nexus set up, which is able to convert
>>> from Maven 1 to Maven 2 repo format.
>>> 
>>> /Anders
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 20:35, Zak Mc Kracken<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> sorry if the question has already been asked, I cannot find anything on
>>>> the mailing list archive.
>>>> 
>>>> Subject should be clear enough, I have a project with many dependencies on
>>>> Maven 1 3rd-party repositories that I cannot migrate (e.g.: java.net).
>>>> Isn't there a way to continue to use them? Like a plug-in to be declared in
>>>> my POM? If yes, please, could someone provide a usage example?
>>>> 
>>>> I really need that, otherwise I will need to stay with Maven 2, until more
>>>> people migrate to the 3.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>> 
>>>> Marco.
>>>> 
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