Reputation: 1828
I am trying to understand how to manage this situation, suppose I have a 3rd party library (best-lib) that consists of three jars (a.jar, b.jar, c.jar) and I will be uploading those jars to a personal Artifactory server, the (best-lib) has two versions 1.0 and 2.0.
What I would like to have in my ivy.xml file is one single dependency to retrieve all those jars at once for example:
<dependencies>
<dependency org="mycompany" name="best-lib" rev="1.0" />
</dependencies>
And this dependency should add all three jars (a, b, and c) of version 1.0.
The question is:
Note: I am not building best-lib I just have its jars, and best-lib is not a library that can be downloaded from a public maven2 repository.
Thanks.
Upvotes: 0
Views: 924
Reputation: 77951
When publishing the "best-lib" module, use an ivy.xml file that lists the 3 jars published by the module:
<ivy-module version="2.0">
<info organisation="mycompany" module="best-lib"/>
<publications>
<artifact name="a" type="jar"/>
<artifact name="b" type="jar"/>
<artifact name="c" type="jar"/>
</publications>
..
..
When you create a dependency against this module, ivy will understand that there are 3 jars in this module.
For an example of how to publish an ivy module see:
If the 3 jars are already in your repository you could publish a stand-alone ivy modules that references the other 3 as dependencies:
<ivy-module version="2.0">
<info organisation="mycompany" module="best-lib" rev="1.0"/>
<dependences>
<dependency org="mycompany" name="a" rev="1.0" />
<dependency org="mycompany" name="b" rev="1.0" />
<dependency org="mycompany" name="c" rev="1.0" />
</dependencies>
Finally, you may need to tell us what format your Artifactory repository uses.... I have been assuming it's an ivy repo. If it's Maven then the concepts are the same but obviously server-side we'd be talking about pom.xml files, instead of ivy.xml (Ivy supports Maven repositories).
Upvotes: 2