Kevin, Henry, Thanks for your tips. Maven is cool, I'm just having trouble wrapping my mind around the repository concept for some reason.
Thanks, Maury > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Hagel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:21 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Dependencies and the local repository > > if you're using <jar>mail.jar</jar> you can dispense with the > <version>1.3</version> completely, <version/> will in fact be ignored if > the <jar/> tag is used. > > the <jar> tag allows the use of un-versioned packages. You can use > <ear/>, <war/> ... I even put my JBoss .SAR file in my local repository, > stored it in a sars subdirectory. I was able to specify > <sar>mysar.sar</sar> and it worked. > > Henry Isidro wrote: > > > Jarrell, Maury wrote: > > > >> Forgive me for asking what must be a very basic question. I've > >> searched the > >> Maven site and scoured the archives for this list and haven't found an > >> answer. > >> > >> I have a simple java project defined in an Ant file. The > >> dependencies for > >> my current project are in jars in the ${basedir}/lib directory. I've > >> configured Ant to include in the classpath whatever jars it finds in > >> that > >> lib directory. > >> > >> I'm trying to duplicate this functionality with Maven, and I've hit a > >> roadblock. I have jars that don't conform to Maven's idea of a > standard > >> name. An example would be the mail.jar from Sun's site. I use it. > >> I tried > >> a dependency entry in my project.xml as follows: > >> > >> <dependency> > >> <groupId>mail</groupID> > >> <artifactId>mail</artifactId> > >> <version>1.3</version> > >> <jar>mail.jar</jar> > >> </dependency> > >> > >> I tried putting the jar in ${HOME}/.maven/repository/jars, but it > wasn't > >> found. Then I tried to follow the format in the repository and made a > >> directory structure as follows: > >> > >> $HOME/.maven/repository/mail/jars/mail.jar > >> > >> That appears to work, but is that what Maven expects me to do for > >> each jar > >> file? This seems like a lot of work for jars that will never be > >> downloaded > >> from a remote repository anyway. > >> > >> This all brings me to the fact that I don't grasp the remote repository > >> concept. Is there 1 remote repository and it's global to the world? > >> I went > >> to http://www.imbiblio.org/maven and looked at the repository there. > It > >> seems small if it's supposed to be the global parking spot for Maven > >> projects world-wide. > >> > >> Please forgive my misunderstanding, > >> Maury > >> > >> > >> > > Hi. I don't know if this will help but if you already have a copy of > > the jar dependency that you need, you can override Maven trying to > > download it from the central repository by setting the property > > maven.jar.override to "on". Then you can set explicit paths of the > > dependency by setting the property maven.jar.{artifactID} to the path > > of the jar. You can place this in a project.properties file or a > > build.properties file. > > > > Anyway, hope this helps. > > > > Henry S. Isidro > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
