Also, you should take a look at Maven-Proxy. This way the jars will be downloaded one time for the whole enterprise instead of being downloaded for every single developpers. I have set Maven Proxy and my corporation central repository at the same location to avoid having Maven looking on central Maven repository first for internal jars.
On 12/3/05, Eric Redmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, you can live with an HTTP server for the central repository. > > I have no answer for your "central" question. > > The parent pom with your defaults just needs to be available to your > descendant poms. You can define its location using "relativePath" if you > wish. > > "src/main/resources/META-INF/" is not figurative. The path is literal. So > if > you are in project P, the descriptor should be in > "P/src/main/resources/META-INF". > > I'm sure you've seen it, but http://maven.apache.org/guides is really the > main repository of knowledge. > > Eric > > On 12/1/05, Stefan Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I read the getting started guide on the Maven website and searched > > through the mail archives but I still have no die how to achieve what > > I'm looking for: > > > > > > > > What I'd like to do: > > > > > > > > - Create a central Maven repository in our company. > > > > - Have a "Super POM" which includes our company wide > > defaults (e.g: force checkstyle, link toour central bug reporting tool) > > all our project POMs should get the defaults from this pom. > > > > - create a custom archtype > > > > > > > > Open questions: > > > > Do I need anything apart from an HTTP/FTP server for the > > central repository? > > > > Will the default repository be overridden if I name our repository > > location "central"? > > > > Where do I have to place the pom with our defaults? > > > > Can anybody send me a sample for a company wide "super pom"? > > > > The "Guide to creating Archtypes" states that the archtype descriptor > > should be places into "src/main/resources/META-INF/". Which src > > directory is referred to here? > > > > > > > > I hope some of the gurus out there can give me some hints or a link to a > > detailed tutorial for Maven2. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > Stefan > > > > > > > > -- Alexandre Poitras Québec, Canada
