Downloading Maven Artifacts from a POM file programmatically with Eclipse Aether

Sometimes I need to resolve Maven dependencies programmatically. Eclipse Aether is a library for working with artifact repositories and I’ll be using it in the following example to read dependency trees from a given POM descriptor file and download each dependency from a remote Maven repository to a local directory. Figure 1. Using Eclipse Aether. Dependencies We’re adding a bunch of dependencies to our project’s pom.xml: <properties> <aetherVersion>1.1.0</aetherVersion> <mavenVersion>3.2.1</mavenVersion> </properties> ...

September 8, 2017 · 5 min · 1006 words · Micha Kops

How to add a local lib directory to Maven

Sometimes there is a dependency not available at a remote repository and one is too lazy to set up a local maven repository – that’s when one adds a directory in the project structure and wants maven to find dependencies there. Create a directory called “lib” in the project root Add the following markup to the pom.xml inside the <repositories>-Tag (create if it does not exist): <repository> <id>lib</id> <name>lib</name> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> <url>file://${project.basedir}/lib</url> </repository> ...

March 18, 2010 · 1 min · 206 words · Micha Kops

Helm Snippets

Common operations Add Helm Repository helm repo add NAME URL e.g. for the Bitnami repository: helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami 1 ↵ "bitnami" has been added to your repositories List Repositories helm repo list 130 ↵ NAME URL bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami Searching in a Helm Repository helm search repo wordpress NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION bitnami/wordpress 15.2.30 6.1.1 WordPress is the world's most popular blogging ... bitnami/wordpress-intel 2.1.31 6.1.1 DEPRECATED WordPress for Intel is the most popu... ...

March 1, 2010 · 4 min · 697 words · Micha Kops