Just noticed Kohsuke's name in the text so this may have been old news...
On 5/3/06 2:42 PM, "William Simons" <william.simons_at_childrens.harvard.edu>
wrote:
> From the maven-users list.
>
> It looks like now you don't have to publish activation.jar in the jaxb group
> on the java.net repository.
>
> Bill
>
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> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:19:04 -0500
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> Subject: Two new Sun jars available in Maven repos (Thanks Carlos)
>
> Just wanted to post and let everyone know that Carlos Sanchez has
> recently uploaded two new Sun jars into the Maven repos. This was not
> discussed on the User or Dev list, nor did I see any relevant JIRA
> emails, so I thought I'd send this notification to the Users list
> myself.
>
> Here's the relevant blog posts:
> http://jroller.com/page/carlossg?entry=sun_jars_available_in_maven
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2006/05/javamail_and_ac.html
>
> The two jars that were uploaded:
> <dependency>
> <groupid>javax.activation</groupid>
> <artifactid>activation</artifactid>
> <version>1.1</version>
> </dependency>
> <dependency>
> <groupid>javax.mail</groupid>
> <artifactid>mail</artifactid>
> <version>1.4</version>
> </dependency>
>
> If you add these dependencies to your poms, you will no longer receive
> a pom file notifying you to download and manually install these jars
> etc, but instead Maven will download the binaries and automatically
> use them. This is great! If you are using older versions of these jars
> in your projects, you can modify your poms to pull these files
> instead, and eliminate the older jars from your corporate or local
> repo etc.
>
> Thanks for your work on this Carlos (and Kohsuke). I look forward to
> seeing more Sun jars posted in Maven repo as they are released under
> CDDL, folded into Project Glassfish, etc.
>
> Wayne
>
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