JQuery Availability on Maven Repositories

Question

I noticed that there are a few Maven plugins for Eclipse that support JavaScript development. The problem with using these is that I cannot find any JavaScript artifacts in Maven Central Repository. Specifically, I was looking for JQuery.

Is there a dedicated Maven repository for JavaScript?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try webjars. http://www.webjars.org/

It has all the major libraries, plus it's in github, so you can fork your own versions if you really need to.

It should work well with a servlet 3 spec container with meta data scanning. But I use https://github.com/bazaarvoice/dropwizard-webjars-resource/ to serve it explicitly, since I'm using JAX-RS (using Jersey).

Answer 2

If your question is about repository of javascript, you can have a look at CDNs:

• Google CDN: http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/ (you can just use the src link without using google's javascript)
• Microsoft CDN: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx

However, please be mindful that they do not provide a local javascript (like how Maven retrieve and store jars), thus Internet connection is necessary and there will be a network overhead.

And more, they do not manage dependencies of javascript. Dependency management of javascript is a much bigger issue in itself.

Hope I have answered your question.