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I'm trying to learn how to use ivy and would like to setup a local repository of the .jar files I've downloaded.
Where do you put the ivysettings.xml file? Does it go in the ant library directory?
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The ivysettings. xml file holds a chain of Ivy resolvers for both regular artifacts and Ivy module files. These are used to resolve and publish (i.e. deploy) artifacts.
Ivy files are XML files, usually called ivy. xml, containing the description of the dependencies of a module, its published artifacts and its configurations.
Resolve task is used to resolve dependencies described in ivy. xml, download and put them in ivy cache.
Ivy is a dependency manager -- it manages and controls the JAR files that your project depends on. If you don't have the JARs, it will pull them down for you by default (from the Maven 2 repository), which can make project setup a lot easier.
If you'll allow me to clarify, the ivysettings.xml is the configuration of your development environment as a whole. It is not related to the repository items themselves. Generally speaking, ivysettings.xml should sit alongside your main build.xml, so that when you put
<ivy:settings file="ivysettings.xml"/>
in your build.xml, it just finds it in the current directory.
This file is completely distinct from the ivy.xml files that describe the various modules in your repository. These sit alongside the published artifacts in the repo.
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You can place your ivysettings.xml file anywhere you want and you simply reference it in your Ant script with:
<ivy:settings file="ivysettings.xml"/>
If you are developing several projects, you will notice that you typically use the same ivysettings.xml file everywhere and there's no point in copy/pasting this file manually.
What I do is define one ivysettings.xml file that is checked out by all my other projects using svn:externals.
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