if you have a maven repo, you have a LOCAL repo only. Now if you have a team, and want to setup a central repo and not use all the other external repo's (maven, codehaus, apache, jboss etc...), then you can have a central remote repo yourself with maven-proxy, or archiva.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Peter Horlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > could anyone explain to me the difference between maven archiva and a > regular maven repository? > The explanation I found on the site was pretty short - > > "With Archiva, you can share artifacts with other developers..." > Isn't that exactly what the regular maven repository does? > > So why / when / what for should I use Archiva?? > > Thanks in advance, > > Peter > -- Thanks, Mick Knutson http://www.baselogic.com http://www.blincmagazine.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mickknutson http://www.djmick.com http://www.myspace.com/mickknutson http://www.myspace.com/BLiNCMagazine http://tahoe.baselogic.com ---
