Re: [eclipselink-users] Trouble with Maven repository/artifacts

[Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jon,

  I just realized a potential problem with your URL.

  We recently moved from the technology platform to the runtime platform.  Your 
URL is the old one.  Here is the new one:

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&nf=1&file=/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo

-Tom

Tom Ware wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
>   The URL you list should be correct 
> (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&nf=1&file=/technology/eclipselink/maven.repo). 
>
>
>   The other URL you have listed is the wiki with the instructions.  Have 
> you had a look at it?
>
>   From what I can tell from your error message, you are trying to get 
> some Spring bundles.  Is that correct?  If so, you will likely need a 
> different repository to get it.  Take a look at the wiki with the 
> instructions to see what you can get from our repository - there is even 
> some sample POM xml.
>
>   If the above doesn't help, let us know what the parts of your pom.xml 
> entries for EclipseLink look like and a full list of the error messages 
> you are seeing are.
>
> -Tom
>
> kosmjon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > The wiki says to use:
> > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&nf=1&file=/technology/eclipselink/maven.repo 
> >
> > and a post from March says to use: 
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Maven
> >
> > Adding either of these repos to my parent POM results in errors such as
> > this:
> > ---
> > Reason: Error getting POM for 'org.springframework.osgi:junit.osgi' 
> > from the
> > repository: Unable to read local copy of metadata:
> > Cannot read metadata from
> > 'c:\docume~1\jkosmoski\.m2\repository\org\springframework\osgi\junit.osgi\3.8.2-SNAPSHOT\maven-metadat 
> >
> > a-eclipselink-repository.xml': end tag name   must match start tag 
> > name  from line 70 (position: START_TAG seen ... 
> > /skins/eclipse/wiki_header.jpg ... @70:74)
> >   org.springframework.osgi:junit.osgi:pom:3.8.2-SNAPSHOT
> > ---
> > I was able to pull some artifacts down, but the .pom files contained HTML
> > (from the wiki?) and the jars were the wrong sizes and appeared to have
> > nothing in them.
> >
> > I was able to manually pull the stuff down and artificially fill in my 
> > local
> > repository, but hopefully we can get this corrected.  Thanks, - Jon