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Why are MRM group repositories bad?
Sunday, November 09, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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The notion of “group repository” was introduced by first Maven Repository Manager-like solution (then called “caching proxy”, today simply MRM): Proximity, announced on Maven devlist in 2005. Since then, almost all major MRM …
Maven Local Repository
Sunday, November 09, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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The Problems The problem with Maven local repository is manifold: it is global and is mutable. To solve these issues we chased things like “repository locking” in Maven 3.9 that proved futile, somewhat. First problem Originally, in Maven2 …
POM proliferation, part 2
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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This blog entry was done as a response to Pom-Pom-Pom. Note: this entry does not want to be hurting, personal or anything like that; still my native language is not english, so bear with me (and feel free to create updates to it). Note: I talk (and …
Maven Local Repository
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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The topic is about Maven Local Repository. You know, that thing that some people insist on protecting from “pollution”. Where to start? Maven Local Repository, as we know it, is a mish-mash of cache and staging (locally built and …
POM proliferation, part 1
Wednesday, July 02, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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This blog entry was done as a response to Pom-Pom-Pom. Note: this entry does not want to be hurting, personal or anything like that; still my native language is not english, so bear with me (and feel free to create updates to it). Where to start? By …
Mimir and RRF
Thursday, June 12, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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Just to remind people about Mimir, and why they want to use it: if you remember the Never Say Never blog entry diagram: sequenceDiagram autoNumber Session->>Session: lookup Session->>Local Repositories: lookup Session->>Remote …
Keep Central first!
Thursday, June 12, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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Just an advice: when using Maven 3 (and 4) you do want to make sure Central is always first remote repository Maven would “consult”. Just add following snippet(s) to your user-wide settings.xml: <profiles> <profile> …
build != testing != publishing
Sunday, June 01, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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This article represents my own stance, and should not be taken as any kind of “rule”. build != testing != publishing People tend to go for simplest solutions, and that is okay. Still, that is many times not quite feasible. As an awkward …
Never Say Never
Monday, March 17, 2025 in User blog: Tamas
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This article assumes reader has basic knowledge about Maven, POM and related things. The main point is to offer high level conceptualization and explain things “why’s” and “why not”, and finally explain why you …
Mason 0.1.0
Friday, March 14, 2025 in Releases
The Maveniverse Mason 0.1.0 is on Central! To use it with Maven 4, add snippet below to .mvn/extensions.xml or ~/.m2/extensions.xml: <extension> <groupId>eu.maveniverse.maven.mason</groupId> …