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 repository?

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).

  <build>
      <plugins>
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>2.4</version>
              <executions>
                  <execution>
                      <id>copy</id>
                      <phase>prepare-package</phase>
                      <goals>
                          <goal>unpack</goal>
                      </goals>
                      <configuration>
                          <artifactItems>
                              <artifactItem>
                                  <groupId>oracle</groupId>
                                  <artifactId>jre-win32</artifactId>
                                  <version>1.6.0.23</version>
                                  <type>zip</type>
                                  <overWrite>false</overWrite>
                                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation</outputDirectory>
                                  <!--<destFileName>optional-new-name.jar</destFileName>-->
                              </artifactItem>
                              <artifactItem>
                                  <groupId>oracle</groupId>
                                  <artifactId>jre-linux32</artifactId>
                                  <version>1.6.0.23</version>
                                  <type>zip</type>
                                  <overWrite>false</overWrite>
                                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation</outputDirectory>
                                  <!--<destFileName>optional-new-name.jar</destFileName>-->
                              </artifactItem>
                          </artifactItems>
                          <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/wars</outputDirectory>
                          <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
                          <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
                      </configuration>
                  </execution>
              </executions>
          </plugin>
      </plugins>
  </build>
  

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.