Hi all,
I'm moving the JOOReports and JOOConverter
(http://jooreports.sourceforge.net) open source projects to a
maven2-based build, with an eye to publishing the artifacts to a public
repository.
The migration was very easy thanks to the excellent documentation,
especially "Better Builds with Maven".
Now for the issue. JOOConverter converts between different document
formats using OpenOffice.org automation. To do so it depends on some
jars provided by OpenOffice.org. These jars are included in any
OpenOffice.org installation. They aren *not* available in any public
maven repository. I've raised an issue with the OOo team asking them to
publish the jars but I'll be very surprised if they actually listen to
that request.
I'd like some advice on how to declare them as dependencies, so that
projects that in turn depends on JOOConverter will get them as
transitive dependencies with minimum effort. Options I see are
1. install OOo jars manually on the local m2 repo with mvn
install:install-file; users will have to do the same; or
2. declare OOo jars as system dependencies, e.g.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.openoffice</groupId>
<artifactId>unoil</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${openoffice.home}/program/classes/unoil.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
and have users pass
mvn -Dopenoffice.home=/path/to/their/openoffice ...
(but system jars don't seem to get packaged e.g. in webapps)
A third (and probably the best) option would be to publish these jars
under the JOOConverter groupId, but I'm not sure I'm allowed to do this
since I'm not the author.
Thanks
Mirko
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