ivy

I'm looking into using Ivy to manage dependencies but wow - that thing really likes to make multiple copies of jars! It spreads like the ivy in my back yard and is just as undesirable! Is it possible to have Ivy simply define a classpath (for a specified profile) that references the resolved dependencies so my javac can reference them directly in the ivy repository (or cache?). I've read the reference docs buy only see the option to set up symbolic links to the repository cache. I guess this will suffice, but it seems like a waste. Also, I'm not sure that a "war" task can build the war from

Can anyone point me at a good tutorial for making & using a local repository with Ivy? (Please don't point me at the Ivy docs, the tutorials are rather confusing) I need to make a local repository to include .jar files that aren't necessarily available through the public maven repositories. Creating a local ivy repository is straight forward, maven is not required. Here's an example of publishing some text files using ivy as a standalone program. I have 3 files I want to publish: src/English.txt src/Spanish.txt src/Irish.txt The ivy file src/ivy.xml details the name of the module and a list of

I have a ivy.xml - https://gist.github.com/1898060 I also have the jar file related to this ivy.xml. What i need is a mechanism to import this project to my maven repo and use it in my maven project. SO basically if i am able to convert the ivy.xml to pom.xml , i might be able to get it work. Is there some mechanism through which i can achieve this. I am looking for something like a maven plugin to accomplish this task. I know that there are ways we can edit the ivy.xml and build.xml to achieve this but then i dont want to do it , as the project is in a private repo. What you really need to do

I am trying to get a simple(?) test project working with Ant, Ivy and JUnit. The basic idea is that Ivy will download junit.jar and then Ant will use it. Note that the junit jar is on the classpath because otherwise (without the classpath element in the junit task) I see "The <classpath> for <junit> must include junit.jar if not in Ant's own classpath". Also, the class given below (junit.framework.TestListener) is in junit-4.8.2.jar. However, when I try ant test on the following I see: test: BUILD FAILED /home/andrew/project/guice/hg/build.xml:33: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: junit