On 07/04/2008, Martin von Gagern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > The maven repositories, like those mentioned below, are sure a great thing > and massively useful. However, so far I found no way to search these > repositories on line.
you mean like: http://www.mvnrepository.com there's also the Nexus indexing tool, as used by various Maven IDE plugins: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Nexus+indexer#NexusIndexer-indexer http://nexus.sonatype.org HTH These are the repositories I'd like to search, at the very least: > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ > http://repository.codehaus.org/ > http://download.java.net/maven/2/ > http://download.java.net/maven/1/ > > The maven homepage has this nice link to archiva, but so far I found no > public archiva instance, and a private instance only seems to index mirrored > artifacts. > > What I would really love would be some way to search the repositories for > artifacts if you have an idea what they should do, but don't know the > groupId and artifactId. I would want to search at least the artifactId, name > and description fields of the POM, as well as filter for maven plugins > (maven-*-plugin and *-maven-plugin). > > If this were done in some central location, such that file transfers are > fast and access to the repositories is done only once for each artifact, > then indexing the artifact contents would be great as well, so that you can > search for artifacts containing a given class name or META-INF file. This > could be used to find artifacts for third party projects with unclear group > name, but also service provider interfaces for some service, in order to > e.g. list all image writers. > > Is there some such public artifact search engine? > If not, is there anybody willing to host one? > How about people willing to help me write one? > > Greetings, > Martin von Gagern > > > -- Cheers, Stuart
