> If you wanted to scrape Maven Central for just the poms then I'd > contact Sonatype who manage the central repository.
As Barrie said, you could talk to Sonatype (Brian specifically) since they operate the Maven Central repo and they might be able to make a zip file available that would be the result of tar'ing all the pom files (no artifacts) in Central. I know you have a solution with rsync but this might save some time. Alternatively you could run your own local Repo Manager (Archiva, Artifactory, Nexus) which would cache all the artifacts and poms. The Aether API might be a useful thing to look at as well. You may be able to specify "just pull down the pom file and not the jar" in the API at least for the first pass, then decide if you want the jars as well for a second pass later. Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
