Chapter 19. Maven Indexer Plugin

The Maven Indexer Plugin is required for the Maven plugin to enable it to quickly search Maven Central for artifacts.

To Deploy the Maven Indexer plugin use the following commands:

Prerequisites

Before deploying the Maven Indexer Plugin, make sure that you have followed the instructions in the Installing on Apache Karaf Preparing to Use Maven section.

Deploy the Maven Indexer Plugin

  1. Go to the Karaf console and enter the following command to install the Maven Indexer plugin: 

    features:install hawtio-maven-indexer

  2. Enter the following commands to configure the Maven Indexer plugin: 

    config:edit io.hawt.maven.indexer
config:proplist
config:propset repositories 'https://maven.oracle.com'
config:proplist
config:update

  3. Wait for the Maven Indexer plugin to be deployed. This may take a few minutes. Look out for messages like those shown below to appear on the log tab.

    maven indexer log

When the Maven Indexer plugin has been deployed, use the following commands to add further external Maven repositories to the Maven Indexer plugin configuration: 

config:edit io.hawt.maven.indexer
config:proplist
config:propset repositories external repository
config:proplist
config:update