Maven Repository - maven

I have downloaded all artifacts in maven repository. Now I copied the repository folder content to other computer running maven. I have to access this new repository for maven commands but it is trying to connect to net for downloading artifacts required. What should I do??
Is there any way of using such repository created manually??

Are you using snapshot versions of your dependencies? If so, Maven might still try to connect to a remote repository to check if there is a new version available. However, you can avoid this by using -o (=offline), like this:
mvn -o <your_command>

Did you set the correct path to the maven repository in your settings.xml file?

This is happening because you might have a different version of Maven on your new machine and thus, it will try to install all the new compatible plugins while you try to build it. So there is no way to get around it except for using exactly the same maven version and same settings

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creating spring boot project without maven

I am working recently with spring boot framework
my problem is that I need to set up to environment in a device that has no internet
I have searched A lot but all I found is using maven that will handle the processes of downloading all the dependencies
put I need to add the required dependencies like the old way when you download the jar files and add them to the class-path
is there a way to do so with STS
or is there a way to change where the maven download the dependencies to be from local instead of internet
Never used STS but I assume it uses maven/gradle under the hood.
You can set up local repository and point maven/gradle to it. For example you could use Nexus:
https://www.sonatype.com/products/repository-oss
Another way is to pull dependencies (they get downloaded when you do maven or gradle build and are saved under ~/.m2 or ~/.gradle directories), then copy your ~/.gradle or ~/.m2 directory to the PC with no internet and build offline. With gradle it looks like this.
./gradlew build --offline

how to manually install maven plugins, dependencies

i have installed Apache Maven 2.2.1, but this server doesn't have internet connection. So maven couldn't install basic plugins. Can i do it manually, could someone tell my how to do it, please.
I would suggest to do the needed build on a machine which has internet access and transfer the local maven repository later to the target machine.
Or better solution using a repository manager where this machine has access to which solves the problem completely.
http://mvnrepository.com/
Go to the MvnRepository, search for the one you need and download the binary. Store it in the appropriate local maven repository directories to be pulled in from there or manually add a reference to wherever you store the .jar

What is maven clean repo building?

I am new to maven and I heard the term "maven clean repo" building ? What is the meaning of this ? How it different from the normal maven building process ? Also I want to know about the maven repository and how it changes when we build the software
I'm not sure if there is an exact term called "maven clean repo building" - but it is probably referring to doing a clean build by clearing out your entire LOCAL maven repository to ensure you have only the correct dependencies for your project.
All dependencies you need get downloaded into the repository which is at ${user.home}/.m2/repository by default. You can see this grows as the build runs and dependencies get downloaded into this folder.
The link
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/examples/purging-local-repository.html explains one way of purging this.
You can change the maven repo being used for the build by providing the following argument to the build command
mvn clean install -Dmaven.repo.local=/tmp/sampleRepo
If relevant artifacts are not available in the pointed maven repo, it will download them from relevant repositories (maven central or repositories which are provided in the pom.xml file).
Hint;) Using a directory in /tmp/ will be more good as /tmp/ get automatically cleared in OS restart.

How to deploy JAR to Maven remote repository

Is there any way to put my JAR file in remote repository, so my maven project can get this JAR file from any place via Internet?
I have downloaded and did some fixes in the ReportNG project: https://github.com/dwdyer/reportng .
Using ANT I have compiled this project into JAR, now I want to put it into remote Maven repository, but don't know how I can do that.
Could somebody please suggest me the way, how I can perform that?
If it is a released version you want to make available in maven central follow this guide: http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html
I'm no github professional but since a maven repo is just a file structure with some meta-data you can put it anywhere maven can read it (ftp, http, ...). so you could create a git repo to host your maven artifacts. see http://cemerick.com/2010/08/24/hosting-maven-repos-on-github/ for an example. (it may be outdated - github may have something like maven repo hosting, I just dont know)
A lightweight way to create your own maven repository is to store it on github. See Hosting a Maven repository on github for more details
I followed sonatype open source project maven deployment guide https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repository/Sonatype+OSS+Maven+Repository+Usage+Guide and successfully deployed the latest version of reportNG into maven central repository. Now maven have both 1.1.3 and 1.1.4
http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cgav%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.uncommons%22%20AND%20a%3A%22reportng%22
You should do a pull request to the github project. If the maintainer likes your fix he will put it in the next version.
If you need your fix in a remote repo NOW then you'll have to setup your own maven repository.

Maven without Internet connection

I'm new to maven project.
I'm changing an ant project to maven project.
To install the 3rd party jar's in maven local repository, I used install command.
Its trying to download the resource jar.pom.
I don't have download access in my organization so the build failed for installtion.
After request i got the resouce jar and clean jar in my desktop(also i can get other necessary jar).
How to make maven to use these jar for the process and how to install the jar in local repository without internet acess.
I downloaded the jar and placed in local repository but it couldn't point the path and use those jars.
please let me know what steps i have follow to run maven install and other commands to build the project without internet access.
where should i placed the jar which i have downloaded by external way.
Please guide me for building and deploying the project.
Thanks in advance.
http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Maven-installation-and-using-in-project-without-Internet-conncetion-tp4564443p4564443.html.
http://www.coderanch.com/t/544641/Jobs-Offered/careers/Maven-installation-project-without-Internet#2471141
I've posted same question in these link
You need an internet connection. Maven isn't initially self-sufficient. It needs to download a bunch of plugins along with their dependencies and the dependencies of your own project. And this really depends on what sort of settings you have for your projects. One set up will require one set of dependencies, another - a whole different one. You can't download artifacts from the Maven Central manually and then install them locally one by one. Simply put, that sounds stupid.
I understand that you're coming from the Ant world where Ant has everything it needs on the local file system. However, Maven relies on the fact that it will have a central repository (either Maven Central, or your own repository - Nexus, Artifactory, etc.) from which to download the plugins and dependencies it needs. There is no point in you migrating to Maven, unless you'll be allowed access to the Central Maven Repository.
Yes, indeed, you can run Maven offline and you can have Maven produce a local repository for you to use when you are in offline mode. However, what you're trying to do is against Maven's principles.
If your company won't allow access to Maven Central, just stick to Ant. Your effort will be a waste of your company's and, ultimately, your own time.
In fact the maven strenght is mainly in the internet accessible repositories and automatic dependency management. But it's possible to use this tool to build your project if you have all dependencies required for your project in your local repository. Then you may use -o option for offline mode and maven will not try to download updated artefact versions.
To get the artifacts into you local repository you have several options:
1) connect to the internet once and mvn build the project (this will download all required dependencies)
2) install dependencies as jar to the local repository manualy (using appropriate mvn command)
I think the questioner is looking for -o or --offline option for mvn. This is a command line option and can be provided while executing.
I think you can setup your repo correctly and execute the mvn goals once when you are connected to internet and use the -o option for later executions .
Hope this helps.
~Abhay
You can configure maven to run in offline mode. Add this entry to your settings.xml
<offline>true</offline>
See here for further information:
http://maven.apache.org/settings.html
Before you can use offline mode, you have to install all necessary third party jars to your local maven repository.
mvn install:install-file
-Dfile=filename.jar
-DgroupId=com.stackoverflow
-DartifactId=artifact
-Dversion=1.0.0
-Dpackaging=jar
-DcreateChecksum=true
-DgeneratePom=true
It's much easier to get those jars in your local repository using an internet connection and online mode.
It's possible to install these resource jars in your local maven repo using install-file. This will make the available to the build. You'll have to do this for each individually, but once that's done you won't have to do anything special.
To be clear, maven puts everything in your local repository, both the jar you're building with this project and the various library jars. Because your system cannot be connected to the internet to maven can populate the local repo with your libraries, you'll have to use this manual approach.
Edit: You should be able to run install-file anywhere. When you do, you'll need to provide the groupId, artifactId, version, and packaging using the command line options. If you already have a POM file for the library, you can provide that instead via -DpomFile=your-pom.xml.
This question has some useful info: How to manually install an artifact in Maven 2?

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