alm – mindthegab.com

It’s my honor – and a a huge personal satisfaction after a few years working on this – to announce the full availability and support of the Alfresco Artifacts Repository, a fully fledged Maven repository hosting the major Alfresco releases and of its flourishing projects ecosystem, both for the Alfresco Community and Enterprise Networks.

For those of you already following this blog this might be no big news, as somehow the information was already around in the Alfresco-sphere and an Alfresco Maven repository has been already unofficially (AKA maintained by me) around for a while. But the great news is that now the repository is officially maintained and artifacts are kept up to date 🙂

Based on the Nexus OSS mature Artifact Repository technology, and following a few weeks Partner only beta, the repository is now publicly available at:

http://artifacts.alfresco.com (formerly http://maven.alfresco.com)

What can you find in there (AKA the screenshot is not enough)? Very well, at the moment the Artifact Repository hosts:

Alfresco Community full releases (JARs/WARs) identified with the groupId org.alfresco

Easy unauthenticated Community access via the aggregated Public releases group. Check the wiki for Maven configuration settings!
For an example on how to configure other build tools, check public examples

NEW: Alfresco Enterprise full releases identified with the groupId org.alfresco.enterprise

If you are an Alfresco Enterprise Customer or Partner you can follow the procedure described in the Alfresco Support KB article to gain access to the Enterprise repository.

NEW: Alfresco Hotfix full releases identified with the groupId org.alfresco.enterprise

This Alfresco Support KB article explains how to get access for Premiere and Premiere advantage customers.

Activiti (BPMN 2.0 implementation) Releases and Snapshots
All the versions of the open source Maven Alfresco Lifecycle, a long term but quickly growing Maven SDK approach to Alfresco development
All Spring repository proxies, to ease Spring Surf development by only referring to this repository developing Surf

NOTE: At the moment no POM files / dependency declarations are available, but if you are interested please feel free to vote on this issue 🙂

Still not sure about the potential? Well, let me just give you an idea:

Hey guys,

I’m proud to announce that thanks to a vigorous Community help (special mentions and kudos to Mao and Stijnr for the great help in the last period), we have been able to pull out the 3.9.1 release of the Maven Alfresco LIfecycle.

Multiple bug-fixes, a zero defect targeted release and a couple of juicy new features like:

Support for H2 DB embedded run
Support for empty file-mappings.properties (to map WEB-INF)
Support for Share AMPs

make of this one probably the most stable and tested release of the Maven Alfresco Lifecycle. The release is tested against Alfresco 4.0b Community, and it’s the perfect foundation to the great work we are going to do in the next weeks to clean it up completely and support Alfresco Enterprise.

The releases is available in the Maven Alfresco Repository (in case you are wondering, I still need to update the archetype-catalog.xml, but that will happen just after Easter, as I have no permissions right now 🙁 ). Full release notes are also published on the Google Code project and per component documentation is available in the brand new published Maven Site (using the HUGELY COOL Maven Fluido Skin).

Feedback is always welcome in the Maven Alfresco List and we also have a Skype chat so feel free to contact me on Skype if you want to contribute / participate in any way 🙂

Have fun and let us know what you think!

Tag: alm

Introducing the Alfresco Artifacts Repository – yes, with Alfresco Enterprise :)