Apache Ivy – Integrate with Artifactory

Like Maven, we could setup a repository server for better dependency management. So instead of connecting to the public repository, we want our Apache Ivy project links to our repository server, i have already setup the Artifactory repository server in my local machine. Let’s continue with the project we created yesterday.

Apache Ivy – Manage dependencies for Ant build Java project

1. Add the ivysettings.xml location in the build.xml.

<project name="hello-world-ant" basedir="." default="main" xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant">

  <!-- Ant properties -->
  <property name="src.dir"     value="src"/>
  <property name="lib.dir"     value="lib"/>
  <property name="build.dir"   value="build"/>
  <property name="classes.dir" value="${build.dir}/classes"/>
  <property name="jar.dir"     value="${build.dir}/jar"/>
  <property name="main-class"  value="com.eureka.HelloWorld"/>

  <ivy:settings file="./ivysettings.xml" />

  <target name="clean">
    <delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
    <delete dir="${lib.dir}"/>
  </target>

  <target name="resolve">
    <ivy:retrieve/>
  </target>    
    
  <target name="report" depends="resolve">
    <ivy:report todir="${build.dir}"/>
  </target>

  <target name="compile" depends="report">
    <mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/>
    <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${classes.dir}"/>
  </target>

  <target name="jar" depends="compile">
    <mkdir dir="${jar.dir}"/>
    <jar destfile="${jar.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" basedir="${classes.dir}">
      <manifest>
        <attribute name="Main-Class" value="${main-class}"/>
      </manifest>
    </jar>
  </target>

  <target name="run" depends="jar">
    <java jar="${jar.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" fork="true"/>
  </target>

  <target name="clean-build" depends="clean,jar"/>

  <target name="main" depends="clean,run"/>

</project>

2. Create the ivysettings.xml.

<ivysettings>
  <settings defaultResolver="main" />
  <credentials host="localhost" realm="Artifactory Realm" username="admin" passwd="password" />
  <resolvers>
    <chain name="main">
      <ibiblio name="public" m2compatible="true" root="http://localhost:8081/artifactory/repo" />
    </chain>
  </resolvers>
</ivysettings>

3. Try to build your project with Apache Ant and see if you could retrieve the dependencies from the Artifactory server.
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