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What Is A Maven Repository

A Maven repository is a directory that stores JAR files and other artifacts that Maven can use. There are three types of repositories: local, central, and remote. The local repository stores dependencies on the local machine. The central repository is hosted online and contains commonly used libraries. If a dependency cannot be found locally or centrally, Maven will search configured remote repositories.

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What Is A Maven Repository

A Maven repository is a directory that stores JAR files and other artifacts that Maven can use. There are three types of repositories: local, central, and remote. The local repository stores dependencies on the local machine. The central repository is hosted online and contains commonly used libraries. If a dependency cannot be found locally or centrally, Maven will search configured remote repositories.

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What is a Maven Repository?

In Maven terminology, a repository is a


directory where all the project jars, library
jar, plugins or any other project specific
artifacts are stored and can be used by
Maven easily.
Maven repository are of three types. The
following illustration will give an idea
regarding these three types.
 local
 central
 remote

Local Repository
Maven local repository is a folder location
on your machine. It gets created when you
run any maven command for the first time.
Maven local repository keeps your project's
all dependencies (library jars, plugin jars
etc.). When you run a Maven build, then
Maven automatically downloads all the
dependency jars into the local repository. It
helps to avoid references to dependencies
stored on remote machine every time a
project is build.
Maven local repository by default get
created by Maven in %USER_HOME%
directory. To override the default location,
mention another path in Maven
settings.xml file available at %M2_HOME
%\conf directory.
<settings xmlns =
"http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
xmlns:xsi =
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance"
xsi:schemaLocation =
"http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-
1.0.0.xsd">

<localRepository>C:/MyLocalRepository</lo
calRepository>
</settings>
When you run Maven command, Maven will
download dependencies to your custom
path.
Central Repository
Maven central repository is repository
provided by Maven community. It contains
a large number of commonly used libraries.
When Maven does not find any dependency
in local repository, it starts searching in
central repository using following URL
− https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/
Key concepts of Central repository are as
follows −
 This repository is managed by Maven
community.
 It is not required to be configured.
 It requires internet access to be
searched.
To browse the content of central maven
repository, maven community has provided
a URL
− https://search.maven.org/#browse.
Using this library, a developer can search
all the available libraries in central
repository.
Remote Repository
Sometimes, Maven does not find a
mentioned dependency in central repository
as well. It then stops the build process and
output error message to console. To
prevent such situation, Maven provides
concept of Remote Repository, which is
developer's own custom repository
containing required libraries or other
project jars.
For example, using below mentioned
POM.xml, Maven will download dependency
(not available in central repository) from
Remote Repositories mentioned in the same
pom.xml.
<project xmlns =
"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi =
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance"
xsi:schemaLocation =
"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-
4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.companyname.projectgroup</gr
oupId>
<artifactId>project</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.companyname.common-
lib</groupId>
<artifactId>common-
lib</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>companyname.lib1</id>

<url>http://download.companyname.org/mave
n2/lib1</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>companyname.lib2</id>

<url>http://download.companyname.org/mave
n2/lib2</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
</project>
Maven Dependency Search Sequence
When we execute Maven build commands,
Maven starts looking for dependency
libraries in the following sequence −
 Step 1 − Search dependency in local
repository, if not found, move to step 2
else perform the further processing.
 Step 2 − Search dependency in central
repository, if not found and remote
repository/repositories is/are mentioned
then move to step 4. Else it is
downloaded to local repository for
future reference.
 Step 3 − If a remote repository has not
been mentioned, Maven simply stops
the processing and throws error (Unable
to find dependency).
 Step 4 − Search dependency in remote
repository or repositories, if found then
it is downloaded to local repository for
future reference. Otherwise, Maven
stops processing and throws error
(Unable to find dependency).

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