Another +1 on not trying a home-grown solution. I manage an Artifactory server that services 4000+ developers, and have had exactly one issue in a year and a half (restarted server/service, 5 min outage). Before that we ran Nexus, and NEVER had any issues with that.
Thanks, Ken *It is through caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. * *It is by the juice of the Coffee Bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the dentist acquires profit. * *It is through caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.* On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Robert Patrick <robert.patr...@oracle.com> wrote: > +1 on not trying to use some other solution. Some people I know were > trying to use WebDAV and the WebDAV wagon to work around some network > limitation that they had and it was extremely painful and the WebDAV wagon > seems to have not really been tested very well. > > I stood up an artifactory server for my old team used for several years > and never, ever had to do anything to it (once I added the commands to > start it to the /etc/init.d scripts)... By default, it uses Tomcat so it > is very simple to run. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Burton [mailto:bur...@spinn3r.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 3:30 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav? > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > > > A real repository manager is not overkill but rather the basic > > foundation in a Maven-based dev environment. And there are free versions > of them: > > nexus oss, artifactory and archiva. > > I strongly advice against trying to do this with your home-brewed > solution! > > > > > I'm starting to appreciate that perspective but then again it's another > component in our infra that can fail, requires maintenance, etc. > > Additionally there's replication , multiple datacenters, etc. > > > > -- > > > We’re hiring if you know of any awesome Java Devops or Linux Operations > Engineers! > > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: *San Francisco, CA* > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile > <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
