#38 Maven artifact of binary distribution

[Turadg Aleahmad]

I have a project that depends on Mantaray and I manage
the build with Maven. I've been looking for a Maven
artifact that I can include in the POM as a dependency,
but can't find one anywhere. Is there one?

It would really help if there was. In the meantime, my
workaround is to set up a small group repository and
host the JAR there.

[Uri Schneider]

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done.

http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/mantamq/manta

[Turadg Aleahmad]

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Great, I'm glad to see this. When I ran with it I got the
following error:

required artifacts missing:
commons-logging:commons-loggins:jar:1.0.4
javax.jms:jms:jar:1.1
javax.management:jmx_remote:jar:1.0.1_03

The first is due to a typo in the artifactId, "commons-loggins".

The other two are because of the dependency on Sun JARs.
This is the correct idiom as specified here,

http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-coping-with-sun-jars.html

But you might consider using the Geronimo implementations
instead, which have an open license. Replacing the Sun
one's with these dependencies has worked for me:

<dependency>
<groupId>geronimo-spec</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-spec-j2ee-management</artifactId>
<version>1.0-rc4</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>geronimo-spec</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-spec-jms</artifactId>
<version>1.1-rc4</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>

I would submit these edits as a patch to the POM, but I
can't find it in the CVS. Is it there?

[Turadg Aleahmad]

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Oh, and it would be handy to have the sources packaged
along. The Maven 2.0 plugin for Eclipse grabs those and
attachs them to the JAR so the programmer can set
breakpoints within the library code.

It's as simple as adding this block:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-sources</id>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<inherited>true</inherited>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

[Turadg Aleahmad]

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I took the POM from ibiblio and put it on my own repository
to fix the commons-logging typo. Then my project built
okay. But when I tried to run it, there was a
ClassNotFoundException for javax.management.StandardMBean

It looks like Mantaray depends on JMX RI too:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mantaray/mantaray/ext/jmxri.jar?rev=1.1&view=log

I don't see a standard dependency declaration on Maven's
"guide to 3rd party jars" page, so I made this one up:
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.management</groupId>
<artifactId>jmx</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>

And then my app ran fine.

[Uri Schneider]

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- fixed the typo in the commons-logging dependency.
- we will not add Geronimo dependencies as this
configuration was never tested. sorry.
- added the dependency for jmx.

We are not using Maven in-house, so I'm not sure how to
package the sources. Should they be inside the JAR along
with the classes? In a separate JAR? please advise.

[Turadg Aleahmad]

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Hi. To generate the sources is as simple as adding a plugin
to the pom.xml which will take care of it all.

See my 2006-01-27 16:15 comment for the XML to enable the
plugin.

[Uri Schneider]

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Hello again,

I might have not explained myself adequately: we are not
using Maven for our internal builds. The binary
distribution which was uploaded to
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/ was created by me, by hand.
So, if the sources are to included with the distribution, I
would have to know where and how to put them myself, not
using a Maven plugin. Please advise.

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[Turadg Aleahmad]

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I don't know how to make the SOURCES artifact except by
asking Maven 2.x to do it.

Would it be possible to build artifacts using a Maven POM?
It would work beside your current build system without
imposing on it. I could write the POM if you like.

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