Why Arquillian can't stop dependent on internet jars which is available in jboss as?

[nirajmind]

Hi All,

     I have been trying arquillian for the last 5 days, but still I am unable to solve my problem. As I am inside a proxy server, my proxy is not allowing me to download "jboss-as-client" jars from internet. Why can't we stop this from downloading? Rather we will refer it locally by using

"

<scope>system</scope>

<systemPath>${jboss.home}/client/jbossall-client.jar</systemPath>

"

If we can do so maximum jars dependency will go off. And we will be free from internet download by maven dependency.

Thanks,

Niraj

[kpiwko]

Hi Niraj,

there are many reason why current approach is better than the one you proposed:

1/ System scope exists in Maven to work with differences among JDK versions

2/ System scope in not officially supported in Maven 3

3/ It does not solve the problem universaly, for remote containers running on a different machine there is no ${jboss.home}

4/ ${jboss.home} must be absolute if you store it in a pom.xml and want to use in different projects

5/ Pom generated by filtering is usable only in your environment, so it can be distributed within your company proxy, unless your

company ensure the same ${jboss.home} for all the developers

6/ Probably even more

So system scope used in the way you did feels hackish and it is not a general solution.

Still, there a very simple solution, you can manually install jboss-as-client jar into your local repository for JBoss AS distribution using mvn install:install-file command. See http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/install-file-mojo.html

Karel