Putting up a maven proxy might solve your problem:
the first time a jar is needed it downloads it from the central repo and
caches it.
There are 3 free implementations I know of:
maven-proxy (from the maven guys): beta?, abandoned in favor of Archiva
Archiva (from the maven guys): beta, needs to be build from source, but
has some positive remarks on this list
Proximity (from 3th party): sounds more stable, has had a bunch of
releases and some positive remarks on this list
Check this list for "Archiva" and "proximity".
Lakshman Srilakshmanan wrote, On 2006-08-25 8:53 AM:
Hi All,
In maven 1.x I could execute maven once on a project and build my local
repository. I could then copy it on to my company's central server and
get all the developers to refer to this for updates.
When I needed a new plugin or dependency, I could run maven 1.x against
ibiblio and follow the above process.
The above strategy ensured that we had only the plugins & dependencies
we needed and not the whole central repository of 5G. I am not going
into the details of how I kept this up-to-date as it would side track
the main issue that I wish to discuss.
Now, in maven 2 I did the same process as described above. The build
started breaking, with errors such as -- plugin 'xxx' does not exist or
no valid version could be found --.
Further investigation revealed this problem was due to two missing files
in my repository.
a) maven-metadata.xml
b) maven-metadata.xml.sha1
In my local repository these files are named as
a) maven-metadata-central.xml
b) maven-metadata-central.xml.sha1
so when I copied my local repository to my company's central repository
the above files caused the problem.
When I renamed the files as required, maven 2 was happy and everything
started to work again.
So my question is, is there a easier way of getting the required
components from maven central repository copied to my company's central
server without having to take a full copy ?
Well, an alternative is to create a script to traverse the repository
and rename the files as required.
I would much appreciate to hear from anyone who has solved this problem
or is there a tool/process that I have overlooked.
Thanks in advance
Lakshman
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With kind regards,
Geoffrey De Smet
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