Maven ibiblio Repository

Those of you who have already used maven dependency management certainly know that they have obtain from the ibiblio.org web site a repository to store a great number of java projects jars. Maven users can thus download automatically their dependencies from this repository.

This feature is finally available to ant users with ivy. Even if ivy has not been thought to be used only with the maven dependency structure (the one used in ibiblio), it is configured to use it by default, so that you only have to describe your dependencies and run ivy, and it will find them on the ibiblio web site (as explained in the first tutorial).

To go into slightly more detail, the maven ibiblio repository stores jars like this:
http://www.ibilio.org/maven/{modulename}/jars/{artifactname}.jar
Thus you have to respect the name of directory under maven as dependency name, if you want ivy to work properly.

If you want to see what modules are available on ibilio, you can check http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/, but be patient, apache is quite long to deliver this directory content... Hopefully a simple html file is generated which is a lot quicker to get: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/layout.html. This page details not only the modules but also the artifacts available in the sub directories.