Guide to managing library repositories (maven 2, but should include maven 1.x repos)

[Darren Hartford <dh...@ghsinc.com>]

Hello all,
I was looking over http://maven.apache.org/guides/index.html and I
didn't see a guide regarding Managing Library Repositories and I would
like to start a thread to do just that.

Although this is seperated from Maven, Maven did help bring to the
masses the idea of library repositories (may not have been the first,
but is the most used).

Looking for the following:
*Tools to manage your own, internal library repository (i.e. corporate
or internal development snapshots).  
-Best practice/tools in creating POM files if the library is not created
from a Maven project. 
-Best practice/tools/scripts to add these non-maven libraries to a
maven-aware repository (auto-creating the folder structure).
-Tips/examples for maven-projects in deploying SNAPSHOT versus
Production libraries to your internal respositories.
-Actual server implementations and interfaces to your repository -
Apache web, simple SMB/Windows share, Subversion-managed, etc.

*Tools/services that can proxy repositories (I am aware of two at least)
and can aggregate multiple library respostories to appear as one (i.e.
pull from ibiblio, codehaus, and your own internal library repository).

Thanks!
-D

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Re: Guide to managing library repositories (maven 2, but should include maven 1.x repos)

[Christian Mouttet <ch...@it2media.de>]

Hi Darren,

take a look at http://maven.apache.org/maven-settings/settings.html. Here you 
can find a lot of answers to your questions

Am Montag, 20. März 2006 17:22 schrieb Darren Hartford:
> Hello all,
> I was looking over http://maven.apache.org/guides/index.html and I
> didn't see a guide regarding Managing Library Repositories and I would
> like to start a thread to do just that.

The Reference section contains very helpful info regarding configuration.

>
> Although this is seperated from Maven, Maven did help bring to the
> masses the idea of library repositories (may not have been the first,
> but is the most used).
>
> Looking for the following:
> *Tools to manage your own, internal library repository (i.e. corporate
> or internal development snapshots).

set up a profile for your company and insert your repositories, e.g.:

...
    <profile>
      <id>your_profile_id</id>

      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
      </activation>

      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>

          <id>your_m2_repo</id>
          <name>Your Repository for Maven 2</name>
          <url>http://your_repo_hostname.your_domain/maven2/release</url>
          <layout>default</layout>
        </repository>
...
        another repositories (maven1 repos are marked with
                              <layout>legacy</layout>)
...
  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>your_profile_id</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
</settings>

Mark your snapshot repositories with snapshots/enabled 'true'.

With that settings you can use mvn deploy-file to install 3rd party jars
(http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-deploying-3rd-party-jars.html) and 
mvn deploy to deploy your (own) Maven2 projects.

Don't forget to set up SSH with private/public keys for easily deploying to 
your local host.

> -Best practice/tools in creating POM files if the library is not created
> from a Maven project.

You can use a pom deployed at http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2 and edit it for 
your needs. I did deploy some javax jars and used 
e.g. .../javax/mail/mail/1.3.1/mail-1.3.1.pom as template.

> -Best practice/tools/scripts to add these non-maven libraries to a
> maven-aware repository (auto-creating the folder structure).

> -Tips/examples for maven-projects in deploying SNAPSHOT versus
> Production libraries to your internal respositories.

Maven2 handles it out of the box. Versions that look like x.y-SNAPSHOT are 
deployed to your snapshot repository (defined in settings.xml).

> -Actual server implementations and interfaces to your repository -
> Apache web, simple SMB/Windows share, Subversion-managed, etc.

I have an Apache web server running. That's easy to configure and users can 
view the repo with any browser they like.

>
> *Tools/services that can proxy repositories (I am aware of two at least)
> and can aggregate multiple library respostories to appear as one (i.e.
> pull from ibiblio, codehaus, and your own internal library repository).

That's another configuration in settings.xml:

...
  <proxies>
    <proxy>
      <id>your_proxy</id>
      <active>true</active>
      <protocol>http</protocol>
      <username/>
      <password/>
      <host>your_proxy_hostname.your_domain</host>
      <port>81</port>
      <nonProxyHosts>*.your_domain</nonProxyHosts>
    </proxy>
  </proxies>
...

>
> Thanks!
> -D

hope this helps
-chris


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