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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We are using our git server for project management. How do I download maven project dependency from my git server?
For project checkout/pull and push we are using tortoise git
Clarification:
We are using another project as a submodule in our project. That project available on our local git server. So, when the new update is available I have to download and copy in m2 repository manual. Instead of a manual process, I want to download from my local git server.
Storing jar artifacts in git is a bad idea. Git is not meant for binary files. Use a maven repository server like Nexus or Artifactory instead.
EDIT: I admit that this answer lacks background and explanation. So I added a little.
Most sources I know do not recommend to put (large) binaries into git repositories because checking out the git repository means checking out all old versions of the binaries and that might be a lot of stuff.
There are specialised solutions (Maven repositories like Nexus/Artifactory) for the task at hand which can be directly used by Maven without giving URLs to separate artifacts (the URL of the repository suffices to find all artifacts in it).
AFAIK GitHub and GitLab offer services to provide Java artifacts as Maven repositories. So if you use on of these services, you probably have cheap other option.
I have 2 Maven projects , a library and an App ,
Both are built and stored as an Artifacts in TFS (2017)
I would like to import project A directly from the TFS Artifacts into Project B
But apparently the structure the TFS artifacts are kept and the fact they do not keep the POM.XML prevents the Project B maven file to indentify the TFS Artifactory as a Maven artifactory and import the Library .
My question is .
1) Is it even possible to use TFS Artifacts the same way Maven artifacts are used ?
2) How does it done?
Thanks in advance
make sure Project A is deployed correctly to your Maven repository (instead or in addition to the deployment to TFS - I would have kept in TFS only the sources...). Then it would be very simple for maven to find project A and add it to B as a dependency.
Hope that helps.
You can try to publish the Artifacts of Project A to a shared folder (Artifact Type: File Share), then reference it directly or add a copy task to copy the artifacts to Project B.
Besides, it sounds like the chain builds in TFS. You can try the extension: Trigger Build Task, the task that can be used to trigger a new Build so that build-chaining is possible. Supports as well conditional triggers. See below similar thread for details:
How to chain builds in TFS 2015?
Using personal library .jar in TFS Online build
Another workaround is upgrading to TFS 2018 or migrating to VSTS to install a Maven artifact is as a dependency of another artifact with the Maven CLI.
Please see Install Maven artifacts using VSTS and TFS for details.
Related documents:
Set up the Maven client in VSTS and TFS
Publish Maven artifacts using VSTS and TFS
Build your Java app with Maven
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.
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.
I am using Maven as a build tool. Is there a way to deploy the artifacts present in my local maven repository (which I install via a 3rd party tool), to my remote Nexus repository ?
Thanks
If you want to deploy a whole bunch of artifacts with their poms as well as multiple artifacts using classifiers, you could use the tool we created in the Apache Flex project which is part of the Mavenizer tool, that we use to deploy entire repositories or parts of them ...
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Apache+Flex+SDK+Mavenizer
Code available at: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flex-utilities.git
The SDKDeployer uses a local maven installation and acts as a wrapper to the maven deploy:deploy-file plugin, the SDKInVMDeployer does the same but without Maven utilizing the Maven libs directly (Is quite a lot faster)