Maven support

All results from the Imixs Workflow Project are provided as maven artifacts. Working with maven makes it almost simple to build applications based on different libraries or frameworks. Maven is a build and configuration tool which helps you to organize your project and finding necessary libraries and artifacts through the Internet.

Imixs supports maven which allows you to access all Imixs Workflow libraries easily and build your projects using Maven. General information about using maven in a project you will find in the maven project site.

How to download an artifact from the maven repository

All binaries from the Imixs Workflow Project are provided as maven artifacts through the maven central repository. You can download each binary directly from the maven central repository. To browse the Imixs artifacts provided by this project go to the maven central repository and search for the keyword 'imixs'.

How to add a maven dependency to your project

To add a dependency for a Imixs Workflow artifact into you own project add a dependency to your pom.xml like shown in the following example:

        <dependency>
                <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
                <artifactId>imixs-workflow-api</artifactId>
                <version>2.1.1</version>
                <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>

Please take care about the version number. You will find the latest version number by browsing the Maven central repository. You will find also more detailed informations about adding dependencies in the separate sections of the Imixs Workflow technologies.

How to access Snapshot Releases

Snapshot releases are newer releases of a component which are still under development. A Snapshot release should only be used in cases where the latest final release did not provide a special feature or implementation you need to work with. You will find the Imixs snapshot releases at the Sonatype Snapshot repository

Note:

The snapshot repository should only be used if snapshot releases are necessary for a specific build.

To access the Snapshot repository you need to add an additional configuration into your Maven settings.xml configuration file. On windows this config file is typically found or to be created in 'Documents and Settings/USERNAME/.m2'. On Linux the folder /.m2 will be found on the users home directory.

To access the Sonatype Snapshot repository you only need to add the repository location. Here is an example of a settings.xml file.

<settings 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/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
 
  <profiles>
      <profile>
          <id>default</id>
          <activation>
          </activation>
          <repositories>
            <!-- Sonatype Snapshot repository -->
            <repository>
                <id>sonatype-snaptshots</id>
                <name>Sonatype Snapshot repository</name>
                <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
            </repository>                               
          </repositories>
      </profile>
  </profiles>
  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>default</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles> 
</settings>