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chad

Reputation: 7537

Does a maven repository have a standard format?

How are repos laid out? Are they the same? If so, who specifies the format.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 8256

Answers (1)

Petr Kozelka
Petr Kozelka

Reputation: 8000

Repository layout for Maven is defined very strictly. Maven itself is the tool that completely handles the repository.

/$groupIdWithSlashes/$artifactId/$version/$artifactId-$version.$extension
/$groupIdWithSlashes/$artifactId/$version/$artifactId-$version-$classifier.$extension

Read more here on details of the layout, and here on details of metadata files.

Note that Nexus has similar layout in its storage, but (in some cases) slightly different format of metadata.xml file.

Other repository managers can have completely different layout in its internal storage - like Artifactory. Anyway, the URL structure must be (and is) identical.

Upvotes: 10

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