I am perplexed by the following situation:
I work for a very large corporation with strict bureaucratic rules about
what you can use. Nonetheless, they have a maven repository
administered by very helpful people. However the maven repository
people don't talk so much to the technical standards people (they don't
even know each other) and therein lies the problem.
The technical standards folks mandate that certain versions of
application servers (for example, JBoss) must be used. These are not
the publicly available versions commonly found but "enterprise versions"
that are either built by RedHat for specific corporate clients or
available to any paying corporate client, I'm not sure which. These
come packaged in .zip files that may be downloaded from an internal
corporate web site.
That would be okay if all I was concerned about was creating a server to
develop on. But I also need to develop against the "targeted runtime"
of that server, and I want to use Maven, as I could with the publicly
available versions of the server. To do that, I need to have these
server runtime jars as "Provided" dependencies in my project. However,
there are no poms included with this zip file. I could load every jar
in the package into a team-private "third party" repo in the central
repo, but this would then be just a bunch of jars with no
inter-dependency information available. Even if POMs were available,
getting them all into the repository is a non-trivial task.
How does one cope with this situation?
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