JRE 1.6 in Maven repository (public or private)

Question

is there JRE 1.6 available in some public Maven repository we could proxy in our Nexus?

if not, can somebody please provide a hint on how to deploy JRE to a Maven reposi

Answer 1

here's the solution I found:

• Zip the JREs (jre-linux32-1.6.0.23.zip and jre-jre-win32-1.6.0.zip in my case).
• Upload them to your Nexus repository through web UI (or deploy manually with "mvn"), set the artifact parameters: groupid="oracle" artifactid="jre-win32" / "jre-linux32", set the right version and packaging type "zip".

• modify your pom.xml to download and unzip the dependency during the build (I bound it to "prepare-package" phase).

  
      
          
              org.apache.maven.plugins
              maven-dependency-plugin
              2.4
              
                  
                      copy
                      prepare-package
                      
                          unpack
                      
                      
                          
                              
                                  oracle
                                  jre-win32
                                  1.6.0.23
                                  zip
                                  false
                                  ${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation
                                  
                              
                              
                                  oracle
                                  jre-linux32
                                  1.6.0.23
                                  zip
                                  false
                                  ${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation
                                  
                              
                          
                          ${project.build.directory}/wars
                          false
                          true
                      
                  
              
          
      
  
  

that's it. The JRE will be downloaded and extracted to target\alternateLocation folder.

you can use "copy" goal instead of "unpack" if you want to only copy the ZIP files without extracting them.