Well, once you have set up an internal repository, Maven can do anything that it does with a normal repository. Some of the benefits of having an internal repository are:
1) Faster downloads / Less use of your own Internet bandwidth 2) Machines that may not have access to the Internet might still be able to access your internal one 3) You can easily add your own artifacts / artifacts that may not yet be available on ibiblio or another public repository, such as some of the Sun Jars, or alternative versions. There is some documentation regarding repositories at http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html Maven-Proxy is a very useful tool for setting up an internal repository. It's available from http://maven-proxy.codehaus.org/. I've heard bits and pieces of more "official" tools being developed for a similar purpose to maven-proxy, but I don't think any are yet publicly released. Cheers, Gareth On 3/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh Ok thanks for the explanation I think the internal repository idea is > more what I had in mind. What can Mahven do in terms of this feature and > is there any documentation for it? > > -- Thanks, Mike > >
