maven embedded 2009/4/23 Todor Boev <t.b...@prosyst.bg>
> Hi, > I am working on a requirement to resolve and download the transitive > closure of a set of maven artifacts. The plan is to use a pom.xml with > "<packaging>pom</packaging>". That pom will contain the set of artifacts as > dependencies together with some repository definitions from where the > artifacts can be downloaded. Than I need to pass this pom into my software > and do the maven magic. I can't use maven itself - what I need are the > pieces of maven that parse poms, resolve artifact dependencies and download > from repositories. > > I discovered that the maven ant tasks do exactly this job. They ant tasks > jar contains the relevant pieces of Maven plus relatively little Ant code to > set it all up and give it a pom.xml. Perfect! Except I don't need ant either > - I need to do the whole process programatically with no other files > involved than the initial pom.xml. I need to pass the Proxy configuration to > the maven wagon directly for example. So I set out to extract just the > "dependencies" ant task and than I plan to strip all Ant code to obtain the > "pure" importer logic. > > But before I do all that I am asking you good people if there is an easier > way - - has someone done this before? > - is there a single Jar out there that contains the relevant pieces of > Maven in pure form that is intended for programmatic use? > > Cheers, > Todor > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
