Alfresco, Ivy and artefacts repo?

[ajmas]

Has anyone managed to create an Ivy based project to be able to build Alfresco, from the artefacts repository? If so please could you share what you have done.

Where I work, we aren't allowed to use Maven, since we have standardised on Ivy (at least that is the reason I have been given). As a compromise I am trying to create an Ivy based project, configured to use a Maven resolver to point to the Alfresco artefacts repository.

So far my ivy-settings.xml looks a bit as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ivysettings>

  <resolvers>
    <chain name="maven-resolvers">
      <ibiblio name="alfresco-public" root="https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public" m2compatible="true" />            
      
      <ibiblio name="java-net-maven2" root="http://download.java.net/maven/2/" m2compatible="true" />
      <ibiblio name="sonatype" root="https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/" m2compatible="true" />
    </chain>
  </resolvers>
  
  <settings defaultResolver="maven-resolvers"/>
</ivysettings>
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The ivy.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:m="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/maven">
  <info organisation="" module="AlfrescoHelloWorld" revision="1.0"/>
   
  <configurations>
    <conf name="default"/>
    <conf name="source"/>
    <conf name="zip"/>
    <conf name="runtime" visibility="private"/>
  </configurations>
      
  <publications>
    <artifact name="${ivy.artifact.id}" type="jar" conf="default" />
   <artifact name="${ivy.artifact.id}" type="zip" conf="zip" />
  </publications>
    
  <dependencies>
    <dependency org="org.alfresco" name="alfresco" rev="5.0.b" conf="runtime->default"/>
  </dependencies>        
  
</ivy-module>
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A sample of the failed resolutions, when building via ant, are:

[ivy:resolve]       ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[ivy:resolve]       ::          UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES         ::
[ivy:resolve]       ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[ivy:resolve]       :: commons-codec#commons-codec;1.9: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: commons-collections#commons-collections;3.2.1: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: commons-httpclient#commons-httpclient;3.1: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: commons-logging#commons-logging;1.1.3: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: commons-io#commons-io;2.4: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.safehaus.jug#jug;2.0.0: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.json#json;20090211: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: aopalliance#aopalliance;1.0: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: javax.servlet#servlet-api;2.5: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: dom4j#dom4j;1.6.1: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: javax.xml.stream#stax-api;1.0-2: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: javax.activation#activation;1.1: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.codehaus.guessencoding#guessencoding;1.0: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.apache.httpcomponents#httpclient;4.3.3: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: jaxen#jaxen;1.1.6: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.jibx#jibx-run;1.2.5: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.apache.chemistry.opencmis#chemistry-opencmis-client-impl;0.11.0: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.apache.chemistry.opencmis#chemistry-opencmis-commons-impl;0.11.0: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: org.apache.chemistry.opencmis#chemistry-opencmis-server-bindings;0.11.0: not found
[ivy:resolve]       :: xml-apis#xml-apis;1.4.01: not found
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I am going to continue investigating on how to resolve this on my side.

[ajmas]

I ended up using Maven from home and compared. Turns out I needed to add another repository. The updated ivy-settings.xml that worked for me:

<ivysettings>

  <resolvers>
    <chain name="maven-resolvers">
    
      <ibiblio name="alfresco-public" root="https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public" m2compatible="true" />            
      <ibiblio name="alfresco-thirdparty" root="https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty" m2compatible="true" />            
      <ibiblio name="activiti-releases" root="https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/activiti-releases" m2compatible="true" />   

      <ibiblio name="activiti-thirdparty" root="https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/activiti-thirdparty" m2compatible="true" />   
      
      <ibiblio name="java-net-maven2" root="http://download.java.net/maven/2/" m2compatible="true" />
      <ibiblio name="apache" root="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/" m2compatible="true" />
      <ibiblio name="sonatype" root="https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/" m2compatible="true" />
    </chain>
  </resolvers>
  
  <settings defaultResolver="maven-resolvers"/>
</ivysettings>

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