Does Apache Rampart work with maven?

Question

In the project I'm working we are using maven to manage dependencies. However we are having problems with the apache rampart which is a security module to Axis2. We have tried to use the following dependencies tags:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.rampart</groupId>
        <artifactId>rampart</artifactId>
        <version>1.3</version>
        <type>mar</type>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.rampart</groupId>
        <artifactId>rampart</artifactId>
        <version>1.4</version>
        <type>mar</type>
    </dependency>

What happens is that maven is unable to locate a number of resources that are included as dependencies in the rampart pom files (note that the rampart pom files are downloaded automatically by maven, so I wasn't supposed to edit those files).

When enter the URI of a rampart dependency that maven was unable to locate I get a 404 error. It looks like that apache rampart pom files are broken...

Has someone successfully used rampart with maven? Is it the apache rampart integration with maven broken?

Answer 1

I just had this problem and found a workaround. Instead of adding the rampart depedency, add all libs in the rampart standard dist, i.e:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.rampart</groupId>
        <artifactId>rampart-core</artifactId>
        <version>1.4</version>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>bouncycastle</groupId>
                <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>opensaml</groupId>
                <artifactId>opensaml</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.apache.santuario</groupId>
                <artifactId>xmlsec</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
        <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15</artifactId>
        <version>1.44</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.opensaml</groupId>
        <artifactId>opensaml</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.santuario</groupId>
        <artifactId>xmlsec</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.3</version>
    </dependency>

Note: I updated some of the version of the rampart standard dist since some of them weren't in the maven repository.