How to add java library without no repository to pom file? - java

I'd like to add one project A as my dependency, but unfortunately, there's no repository host this library. I know that I can install it to local repository manually, then refer this in pom file. But I have a travis build job where there's no such artifact, is there any way that I can install this library to local repo automatically ? Thanks

I would recommend to use the clean approach and uploading this library into your own repository. If you don't have one: time to get one running.
If you're really not up to this task the maven install plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/install-file-mojo.html can install a jar in the local repository. This will work both locally and on a CI server.
To upload a jar in a remote repository there is the deploy plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-file-mojo.html
If you bind the execution of this plugin to a very early phase in the maven life-cycle (validate) you might be able to avoid a build step required prior of your own build.

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How to include local artifacts with Maven dependency:go-offline

I'm trying to generate an offline local maven repository folder for my project, which includes both remote dependencies, and a few dependencies to local projects.
When I run mvn install in my project, Maven succeeds in resolving both remote and local dependencies. Now, in order to have all dependencies available offline, I want to have a local repository folder in my project. Using the command mvn dependency:go-offline -D"maven.repo.local"="./maven-local" I try to achieve this. However, Maven manages to place all remote dependencies in the local folder, but not the local dependencies to my local projects (which have been installed already).
The error I get is:
Failed to execute goal on project genericgateway: Could not resolve
dependencies for project org.my:ownproject:jar:1.0.1: The following
artifacts could not be resolved: org.my:otherproject:jar:1.0.1: Could
not find artifact org.my:otherproject:jar:1.0.1 in central
(https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)
How can I tell Maven to also search in my local ~/.m2 repository for these projects?
Basically you should work with one local repository for compilation of maven project.
So, you have three options:
Option 1
Don't specify a local repo while executing mvn dependency:go-offline. Let it download into you regular local repo (~/.m2 by default)
Install the local artifact there as well and compile against this repository.
Option 2
Compile local projects into ./maven-local with maven.repo.local flag as you did. The point is that that both local and downloaded artifacts will be in the same repo.
If you want, you can configure a local repo in the settings.xml (see this answer
Option 3
IMO Overkill for local dev env, but still...
If you absolutely have to separate the repositories you can install a software like Nexus/Artifactory locally - it can provide a flexible repository management and then configure different repositories, but then again, it will be like a remote repo residing in your local PC, maven will create a local cache with both local and remote artifacts, still in the same repo.

How to deploy to AEM instance via Repository?

Is it possible/ how do you take an packaged version of a jar via a repository (for example Artifactory) and deploy it to an instance of AEM?
Could this be done via Maven and Jenkins in an automated way?
Currently this is done, only by using a tagged version in a VCS to build and then deploy via the content-package-maven-plugin.
With Jenkins you have multiple options:
You could let Maven build the artifacts for you
or you could use the Repository Connector Plugin (1) to get the artifacts from Nexus / Artifactory
After that, just use the CRX Content Package Deployer Plugin (2) to upload the packages to your AEM instance.
The Jenkins build could be triggered manually, by change in the VCS,...
(1): https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Repository+Connector+Plugin
(2): https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/CRX+Content+Package+Deployer+Plugin

Download a Maven artifact and install into a specific local repository (not .m2)

I have several local Maven repositories besides the one located in ~/.m2 directory and I want to simplify the process of installing new artifacts into them from Maven central.
So far I couldn't find a way to tell mvn dependency:get that dependency should be put into a specific local repository.
I did manage to find a way to install a given downloaded artifact using mvn install:install-file -DlocalRepositoryPath=, but I want to be able to get and put dependencies into a specific repository with as few manual steps as possible.
Before you ask why can't I just configure my project to use Maven central directly here is the answer: the project uses Gradle and I do not own its build script (i.e. I can't modify it). The project build script is written to work with several distinct repositories having the same base URI that I fortunately can change using build.properties file. So my idea is to have several local maven repositories in the same root directory and trick the build script to use them.
You can use the maven.repo.local property:
mvn dependency:get -Dmaven.repo.local=/path/to/localrepo

Quickest POM settings to turn an existing Eclipse web project in a Maven-managed project?

I'm converting an existing Eclipse-based web project to a Maven-managed one.
Since the project has lots of dependencies, many of which are custom (they're either internally made or they've been taken from sources that have no public repository), is there some 'magic' Maven POM setting that will let me load every jar from WebContent/WEB-INF/lib and make the project work as before right now, so that I can configure each dependency and do the necessary refactoring to turn it to a proper Maven project with a little more time and care?
I have already seen this question, but the project must continue to compile inside Eclipse, so - or at least I guess - it is not just a matter of using the Maven war plugin
What you want to do is called "installing" your non-mavenized JARs into your maven repository. This can be a local or remote repo that you host.
The command to install to your local repo is something like this: mvn install:install-file -Dfile=My-lib.jar -DgroupId=com.mycompany -DartifactId=My-lib -Dversion=1.2.3 -Dpackaging=jar
You'll want to review the various options for install to suit your project.
Once the non-mavenized dependencies are installed to your repo you can add them to your pom like any other maven dependency. They will be fetched from your local repo.
You will have to set up your own remote repo (like Artifactory) or install each plugin for every developer and CI server in your environment for others on your team to build the project. I strongly reccomend Artifactory, it makes it easy on your and your team to use maven and get dependencies.

Travis CI not using extra Maven repository provided in pom.xml

I have a Java-based GitHub project, fitnessjiffy-spring (I'm currently focused on the "bootstrap" branch). It depends on a library built from another GitHib project, fitnessjiff-etl. I am trying to configure both of these to be built by Travis CI.
Unfortunately, Travis is not as sophisticated as Jenkins or Hudson in dealing with Maven-based Java projects. Jenkins can easily handle dependencies between projects, but the same concept doesn't seem to exist with Travis. If one project depends on another, then that other project must already be built previously... and its artifact uploaded to some Maven repo where the first project can download it later.
My "fitnessjiffy-etl" library is building and deploying just fine. I'm using Bintray for Maven repository hosting, and you can clearly see my artifacts over plain HTTP at:
http://dl.bintray.com/steve-perkins/maven/
In my "fitnessjiffy-spring" project, I am adding this Maven repo location directly in the pom.xml, so that Travis will be able to find that artifact dependency. Here is the state of my POM at the time of this writing. Note the <repositories> element at the bottom of the file.
When I build this project locally, it works just fine. I can see it downloading the Maven artifact from "http://dl.bintray.com/...". However, when I try to build on Travis CI it fails every time. I can see in the console log that Travis is still trying to download the artifact from Maven Central rather than my specified repo.
Does this make sense to anyone else? Why does Maven utilize a custom repository location in a POM file when building locally, but ignores this configuration when running on a Travis CI build?
From digging into this further, I discovered that Travis uses its own proxy for Maven Central, and has configured Maven to force ALL dependency requests through their proxy. In other words, it does not seem possible at this time to use additional Maven repos specified in the POM file of a project built on Travis.
In my case, I ended up refactoring such that project would not need the outside JAR dependency. I also switched to Drone.io, so I could manage my settings on the build server rather than having to carry a YAML file in my repository (which always struck me as a bit daft).
However, even on Drone it's still a major hassle to manage dependencies between multiple projects (extremely common with Java development). For Java, I just don't think there's currently an adequate substitute for Jenkins or Hudson, maybe running on a cheap Digital Ocean droplet or some other VPS provider instance.
In your install phase add a $HOME/.m2/settings.xml define your custom repository.
cache:
directories:
- "$HOME/.m2"
install:
- curl -o $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trajano/trajano/master/src/site/resources/settings.xml
- mvn dependency:go-offline
script:
- mvn clean install site

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