[Unity-idm-discuss] Moving to Maven Central Repository

[Krzysztof B. <kb...@un...>]

Dear Subscribers,

[This notice is relevant only for Unity users who are /developing 
against Unity //Java//APIs/]

As you could noticed the delay between 3.2 and an upcoming 3.3 release 
was bigger than usual. It was caused partially by an undertaken effort 
to move Unity from the Maven repository hosted by courtesy of 
Forschungszentrum Jülich to the Maven Central.

That was a complex process as many of Unity dependencies where also 
hosted there. With Bernd's support, we managed to migrate all Unity 
dependencies to GitHub from Sourceforge, and we have deployed them to 
Maven Central. Hopefully this means that from the next Unity release all 
Unity artefacts will be available from the most popular repository in 
JVM ecosystem. This brings many benefits:

I'd like to express here my gratitude to FZJ for hosting Unity Maven 
repo, free of charge, for something around 7 years, and more personally 
pass big thanks to Bernd, who helped with the whole action of moving to 
GitHub and Maven Central.

Technically the move to Maven Central Repository required us to change 
Maven's groupId of all Unity artifacts (as well as few dependencies that 
we maintain). From Unity version 3.3.0 all Maven artifacts will live in 
the group "io.imunity". Artifact ids were not modified, version numbers 
are continued.

Best,
Krzysztof