I have no experience with maven, so excuse me if this question is silly…
From another question (How does Grails handle plugin dependencies), I’ve learned that I can avoid the jar-hell in grails through maven repositories. But I now have the requirements that…
- I am not allowed to use remote maven repositories
- I would like to bundle the needed jars with my plugin (but low priority)
- I would like to avoid the effort to install a local maven repository
I already worked with a reference to a local folder for plugin resolution. This works great.
But how do I have to structure a local folder in order to use this option:
repositories {
flatDir name:'myRepo', dirs:'/path/to/repo'
}
I mean, I could just drop the jar files to this folder, but how do I then reference those jar files? Do they have a naming schema like artifact_version.jar? Or do I have to create an XML configuration for this local repository?
Or is the effort to use a local maven repo small and maven is even already on my machine through grails?
The fact is Maven comes already with a local repository (~/.m2 on linux boxes). If you don’t have access to an external repo, you just have to install your jars in the local repo, with this command
is ‘jar’ (without quotes) and group-id and artifact-id are either determined if it’s 3rd-party library (go make a search on mvnrepository.com if you don’t know them for a particular library) or you put there your group and artifact ids
EDIT : In fact, the naming scheme under the repository is for the library example version 1.2 from jexample.com is usually
com/jexample/example/1.2/example-1.2.jar(groupId : com.jexample, artifactId : example, version : 1.0)