Question

is there JRE 1.6 available in some public Maven repository we could proxy in our Nexus?

if not, can somebody please provide a hint on how to deploy JRE to a Maven repository?

Answer 1

here’s the solution I found:

• Zip the JREs (jre-linux32-1.6.0.23.zip and jre-jre-win32-1.6.0.zip in
  my case).
• Upload them to your Nexus repository through web UI (or deploy manually with “mvn”), set the artifact parameters: groupid=”oracle” artifactid=”jre-win32″ / “jre-linux32”, set the
  right version and packaging type “zip”.

• modify your pom.xml to download and unzip the dependency during the build (I bound it to “prepare-package” phase).

  <build>
      <plugins>
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>2.4</version>
              <executions>
                  <execution>
                      <id>copy</id>
                      <phase>prepare-package</phase>
                      <goals>
                          <goal>unpack</goal>
                      </goals>
                      <configuration>
                          <artifactItems>
                              <artifactItem>
                                  <groupId>oracle</groupId>
                                  <artifactId>jre-win32</artifactId>
                                  <version>1.6.0.23</version>
                                  <type>zip</type>
                                  <overWrite>false</overWrite>
                                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation</outputDirectory>
                                  <!--<destFileName>optional-new-name.jar</destFileName>-->
                              </artifactItem>
                              <artifactItem>
                                  <groupId>oracle</groupId>
                                  <artifactId>jre-linux32</artifactId>
                                  <version>1.6.0.23</version>
                                  <type>zip</type>
                                  <overWrite>false</overWrite>
                                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation</outputDirectory>
                                  <!--<destFileName>optional-new-name.jar</destFileName>-->
                              </artifactItem>
                          </artifactItems>
                          <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/wars</outputDirectory>
                          <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
                          <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
                      </configuration>
                  </execution>
              </executions>
          </plugin>
      </plugins>
  </build>
  

that’s it. The JRE will be downloaded and extracted to
target\alternateLocation folder.

you can use “copy” goal instead of “unpack” if you want to only copy the ZIP files without extracting them.