Hi Nuwan, Please find answers inline below.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 12:45 AM Nuwan Jayawardene <nsga...@gmail.com> wrote: > [image: image.gif]Hi All, > > 1. I did some further work on this and tried importing the new version > of JUnit (version 5) using the following snippet in the pom.xml;[image: > image.png] > however, this did not prompt the newly added dependency to be > downloaded after a mvn clean install. > Would greatly appreciate some thoughts on how to rectify this. > > This version of the library might be already in your local m2 repo (.m2 directory). > > 1. I also noticed that the repositories included in the pom.xml is > only the WSO2 public maven repo and Maven central is not included. > Is it allowed to include Maven central as well so there's access to a > wider no. of external libraries? > > Yes. We can get libraries from Maven central. > Kind regards > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 1:49 AM Nuwan Jayawardene <nsga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I've a couple of doubts to clarify on importing external libraries into >> Synapse. >> >> 1. Is there a vouching process to see if a particular library is >> suitable to be used (other than the license). >> >> The license is the most important factor. If you are introducing a new dependency, please initiate a mail and discuss it with the community before proceeding. > >> 1. When adding a new dependency after including it in the pom.xml as >> follows... >> [image: image.png] >> is running a mvn clean install or mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true >> sufficient >> or do we need to delete the .m2 directory as well and redownload all the >> dependencies? >> >> If you already have the particular version of the library in your local m2 repo (.m2 directory) it won't download again until you delete it from the .m2 directory. > >> 1. >> I tried the 2 former commands however it doesn't seem to >> have downloaded the library from maven central. >> >> Would appreciate your thoughts on this. >> Regards >> -- >> *Nuwan Jayawardene* >> Assistant Lecturer, Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT). >> Research Assistant, University of Moratuwa >> >> https://www.linkedin.com/m/in/nuwanjaya >> >> >> > > -- > *Nuwan Jayawardene* > Assistant Lecturer, Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT). > Research Assistant, University of Moratuwa > > https://www.linkedin.com/m/in/nuwanjaya > > -- *Isuru Udana* Associate Director/Architect *; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com <http://wso2.com>email: isud...@gmail.com <isud...@gmail.com> *
