Maven Repo

[redijedi]

I did a search, but didn't come up with anything. Pardon this if it has been answered before.

Will JBoss ever provide a maven repo for any of it's resources? EJB3 embeddable is especially annoying to set up since I have to manually install some 20 libs. It would be soooo much more condusive to development if there was a centralized repo.

[visolvejboss]

Hello,

Refer the link.
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=MavenBuildCreation

[dhartford]

I am also interested in this. The wiki with the referenced link in the wiki http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/ does not contain EJB3 embeddable resources.

Will these resources be added?

[alex.pinkin]

This might be helpful for you: JEMS Installer allows to install AS, EJB3, and JBoss Portal with no manual configuration work.

http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jemsinstaller/downloads

[dhartford]

I think the intent that redijedi and I are trying to accomplish is the equivelant of ant 'get-deps' (i.e. maven dependency management).

If a project requires certain jars, such as EJB3 embeddable jars, download them from an appropriate repository opposed to always doing system-installs of an application then pointing to the application.

By putting the jars in the maven repo:

*Saves several steps.
*version changes of the ejb3-embeddable can be handled easily without having to do additional system installs.
*Cruisecontrol/continuum build machines may not have system-installs of these applications and would need to get the jars from someplace.

Hope this detail helps!

-D

[redijedi]

Yes, this is exactly the point I was trying to make. If JBoss supplied a maven repo, you wouldn't have to perform all the manual library setup steps that are needed to get up and running. Maven makes development more streamlined. If JBoss provided the necessary dependencies in a repo, JBoss development would be more streamlined. This is a win-win for the developers and for the JBoss organization.

[dhartford]

Is this the correct location for this kind of question/request, or is there another forum that is more relevant?