Let me invite you to try and use the public Tapestry based application I have been developing for a while and my company SourceLabs supports and hosts http://area51.sourcelabs.com/cjar/app Features: * search for Java artifacts by name or content (class and package names); * ready to download links to jar files, and source and javadoc archives when available; * auto generated snippets to include into Maven or Ant build files; * info panel about artifacts: origins, licenses, etc; * JarDiff jar comparer tool to tell the exact differences between two Java archives; * Dependencies 'shopping cart' allows generating Ant and Maven build files based its content; * Dependencies report that lists all the jars in the selection plus additional information; * On-line services exposed via Hessian protocol: * simple search; * MD5 search; * Client side JarSetAnalyzer tool to analyze existing jar files and report meta-information about them: for example for anonymous dom4j.jar file the tool can tell that it is the version 1.5.1 and that version 1.6 update is available, it will also report applicable licenses. JarSetAnalyzer can be also used to check if all the used jar files were not altered; http://area51.sourcelabs.com/cjar/app?page=CJARResources&service=external&sp=S%2Finfo%2Fresources%2FsearchService.html Those features are only tiny subset of all intended features outlined in the project roadmap: http://area51.sourcelabs.com/cjar/info/about/cjar_everyday_use.png The project has been inspired by CPAN, PyPI, Pear, Gentoo, and other repositories which serve well to the communities, and only Java lacks a central repository from where we can reliably get necessary artifacts. The CJAR has the ambitious goal of becoming The Java Repository and therefore it depends on community acceptance, transparency and feature completeness. Please look at the beta, try to use it, and send us feedback so we can improve the tool and it can better serve Java community at large. You are welcome to use form in the CJAR http://area51.sourcelabs.com/cjar/app?page=FeedbackForm&service=external or send us email, or edit SWIK pages, whichever is convenient for you.
Sincerely, Konstantin
