[jira] [Created] (FLINK-8074) Launch Flink jobs using Maven coordinates

["Ron Crocker (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ron Crocker created FLINK-8074:
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             Summary: Launch Flink jobs using Maven coordinates
                 Key: FLINK-8074
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8074
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Ron Crocker
            Priority: Minor


As a Flink user, I want to be able to submit my job using the Maven coordinates (see https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Maven_Coordinates) of its jar instead of a path to a local copy of that jar. 

For example, instead of submitting my job using: 
{{bin/flink run /local/path/to/word-count-1.0.1.jar <options>}}

I would specify it's Maven coordinates:
{{bin/flink run com.newrelic:word-count:1.0.1 <options>}}

This latter form would contact known Maven repositories to acquire the jar at the specified coordinates and submit that to the cluster. 

Considerations:
* No transitive dependencies should be included - the target, specified either as a jar file in the local file system or by its maven coordinates, should be a complete Flink job.
* Maven repositories need to be specified _somewhere_. It's reasonable to expect that these repositories are independent of the cluster configurations.
* Specified repositories must meet the Maven API, but don't need to be Maven - artifactory, for example, is a valid repository as long as it meets the Maven API.
* _minor point_: _Indeterminate versions_ should be prohibited - that is, consider {{com.newrelic:word-count:+}} an invalid coordinate specification.



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