Maven central has long been restricted to a few very large players such as the Apache foundation.
This has changed recently thanks to a new free offering by Sonatype for OSS projects.
LegStar has been using Maven from the very beginning and more and more users rely on the availability of artifacts in the LegStar Maven repository.
This proprietary repository is not very secure and not always available. Now that it is possible to push artifacts to Maven central I have been busy figuring out how to take advantage of this.
The major issue is that Maven central's policy is to host artifacts only if their dependencies are also in central. And of course LegStar has dependencies on oss libraries which are not in central
One of the bad players is the Eclipse foundation. So far, no complete sets of Eclipse bundles are available as Maven artifacts. There are lengthy discussions going on but no results yet.
Besides Eclipse the only other annoying dependency we have in LegStar is Websphere MQ. Of course this one being proprietary, it will never make it to central.
In order to bootstrap the process of moving to Maven central, I have started to split the modules into separate release units. the first, very limited, release is now in Maven central. You can see the result at this location by entering the legstar keyword.
It feels good to be part of the big league
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