Question

I have a dependency problem with maven. I used to have saxon 8.7 that is located on maven central. Then, I had to upgrade to the latests saxon-b 9.1.0.0 which is only partially on maven central.

This is a snippet of my dependencies:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.sourceforge.saxon</groupId>
        <artifactId>saxon</artifactId>
        <version>9.1.0.8</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.sourceforge.saxon</groupId>
        <artifactId>saxon-dom</artifactId>
        <version>9.1.0.8</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

The first artifact ‘saxon’ is available on maven central, but the secon ‘saxon-dom’. Here is the artifact I want.

Can I tell maven to download the “jar” file or am I obliged to download the jar and publish it locally on my maven repo to use it as a dependency?

Answer 1

Did not expect to resolve this so easily :

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.sourceforge.saxon</groupId>
  <artifactId>saxon</artifactId>
  <version>9.1.0.8</version>
  <classifier>dom</classifier>
</dependency>

Basically, I can get the dependencies that are “attached” to the ‘saxon’ artifact using the classifier tag. Did not know about this and I found out that the tag existed when I searched for ‘saxon’ on Sonatype repository (which is quite good). It gave me the dependency snippet above.

Reference : http://maven.apache.org/pom.html