How to use Bitbucket as a maven remote repository?

Question

We are planning to use bitbucket as source code repository as well remote repository for our maven based projects. I have created a repository on bitbucket something like below:

https://bitbucket.org/mycompany/maven-repository

How can I push my company specific project jars into the above remote repository using the project specific pom.xml? Can you help me with a sample pom.xml? We would be pushing all company specific jars into the above remote repository to be used by other projects within the company as maven dependencies.

Here is what I was trying so far to push one sample project into the remote repo:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0                   http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId> <artifactId>corporate-pom</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> <distributionManagement>     <repository>         <id>MyCompanyRepo</id>         <url>https://bitbucket.org/mycompany/maven-repository</url>     </repository> </distributionManagement> <build>     <pluginManagement>         <plugins>             <plugin>                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>                 <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>                 <version>2.7</version>             </plugin>         </plugins>     </pluginManagement> </build> 

The above is a parent pom, which will be included by all the other projects within the company and I wanted to push this to the remote repo to be used by other company specific projects.

When I run mvn deploy command, this is the error I get:

C:\Cooler\Work\dev\Projects\mycompany\wal-common>mvn deploy [WARNING] [WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective settings [WARNING] Unrecognised tag: 'snapshotPolicy' (position: START_TAG seen ...</layo ut>\n          <snapshotPolicy>... @203:27)  @ C:\Users\cooler\.m2\settings.xml, line 203, column 27 [WARNING] [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building corporate-pom 1.0 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install (default-install) @ corporate-pom --- [INFO] Installing C:\Cooler\Work\dev\Projects\mycompany\wal-common\pom.xml to C:\ Users\cooler\.m2\repository\com\mycompany\corporate-pom\1.0\corporat e-pom-1.0.pom [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy (default-deploy) @ corporate-pom --- Uploading: https://bitbucket.org/mycompany/maven-repository/com/mycompany/corporate-   pom/1.0/corporate-pom-1.0.pom [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 1.607s [INFO] Finished at: Tue Sep 17 14:33:01 MST 2013 [INFO] Final Memory: 7M/122M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7: deploy (default-deploy) on project corporate-pom: Failed to deploy artifacts: Co uld not transfer artifact com.mycompany:corporate-pom:pom:1.0 from/ to CompanyREPO (https://bitbucket.org/mycompany/maven-repository): Connection to h ttp://:8080 refused: Connection refused: connect -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit ch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea d the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionE xception  

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You can try http://synergian.github.io/wagon-git/index.html it has instructions for bitbucket.

An alternative to using bitbucket is to use a dropbox folder for company. https://code.google.com/p/peter-lavalle/wiki/MavenOnDropBox Contains a very good step by step guide on how to do this.

Answer 2

Install jars in a local maven repository.

Make a directory e.g. maven-repo/repository

cd into maven-repo

execute the following (replacing the arguments by the ones that are relevant to your jar):

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.rapid_i -DartifactId=rapidminer -Dversion=5.3.006 -Dfile=/path/to/artifact/rapidminer.jar -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true -DlocalRepositoryPath=./repository  -DcreateChecksum=true 

Share the folder to a BitBucket public repository.

Create a repository in your pom.xml pointing to you bitbucket folder.(you must use /raw/master in the path https://bitbucket.org/your-user-or-group/your_maven-repo/raw/master/ !!)

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>  <groupId>org.activeintel</groupId> <artifactId>rapidminer-proj</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version>   <!-- Dependency to jar on Maven Repository on Git-BitBucket --> <dependencies>     <dependency>         <groupId>com.rapid_i</groupId>         <artifactId>rapidminer</artifactId>         <version>5.3.006</version>     </dependency> </dependencies>  <!-- Maven Repository on Git-BitBucket --> <repositories> <repository>     <id>neil_rubens-repository</id>     <url>https://bitbucket.org/your-user-or-group/your_maven-repo/raw/master/repository/</url> </repository> </repositories>  </project> 

Source: Hosting Maven Repository for third-party jars on Git (Bitbucket/Github)