Maven Repositories

External

• Introduction to Repositories https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html

Internal

• Maven Concepts

Overview

A repository is used to hold build artifacts and dependencies of varying types. There are only two types of repositories: local and remote.

A local repository is a cache of the remote downloads and also contains temporary build artifacts.

A remote repository is accessed over a network protocol such as http:// or even file://. They may be set up by other organizations, or by your own organization in order to share artifacts between different development teams.

Adding a Remote Repository

Both "http://" and "file://" work.

A generic http repository:

...
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>my-internal-site</id>
        <url>http://myserver/repo</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
...

This is an example of adding a local EAP repository:

...
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jboss-datagrid-6.6.0-maven-repository</id>
        <url>file:///Users/ovidiu/runtime/jboss-datagrid-6.6.0-maven-repository</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
...