Hi Allen,
Thanks for the quick response. I think that is really great that you are
considering it -- the ability to include dependencies in a project in this
fashion is so huge, we don't even use things that aren't in these central
locations.
1. are these jars just the API interface, not the object or hdfview layer?
I would say they are the API interface + Object Layer. Unless there are
well documented APIs to program to the hdfview layer, I wouldn't include it
there.
2. what is the process to update the repository?
It is unclear to me how the current repository got there, I would have
assumed you guys had pushed it up at some point? If not, it might be
helpful to email the people at the mvn repository: Contact
Us<info@mvnrepository.com>
The general documentation is here:
https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html,
however, it might be easiest to just start at sonatype directly:
http://www.sonatype.org/central/participate
This location is where a majority of the published artifacts are deposited
and then made available to a variety of build tools.
3. Are there supporting issues that we need to improve or implement?
You'll probably need to create a pom.xml in order to correctly upload
things to a repository -- this might require some minor
changes/enhancements to the build system. It is hard to know at this point.
Are you using Ant? If you are then there should be minimal hurdles.
4. Other things ...
I envision that the platform specific native libs might be a challenge, but
I'm not sure. There are lots of examples up on these repos using native
libs so I'm sure it is a solved problem.
Let me know how I can help, I'm definitely not an expert in the area and
I'm sure there are people on this list with more experience.
thanks! jim
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Allen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org> wrote:
James,
We have been discussing this issue and we will need the community's help.
My questions;
1. are these jars just the API interface, not the object or hdfview layer?
2. what is the process to update the repository?
3. Are there supporting issues that we need to improve or implement?
4. other things?
Allen
On Monday, February 10, 2014 04:48:09 PM James Bullard wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was looking to use HDF5 in a new java project and I was disappointed to
> see that the HDFgroup hasn't pushed a new set of jars to Maven. This post
> from a year ago asks more or less the same thing:
>
>
http://lists.hdfgroup.org/pipermail/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org/2013-Februa
> ry/006526.html
>
> You can see the current available version is here:
>
> http://mavenhub.com/mvn/central/org.hdfgroup/hdf-java/2.6.1
>
> Is it possible for the new releases to get pushed to this invaluable
> resource?
>
> thanks! jim
