Newbie question abount managing java libraries

Question

Hello all,
I'm rahter new to Java and have a question about how to manage java libraries in a central location. I've been told to use Maven, but I don't need/want to use it.
I'm only asking a way to have centralized the different Java libraries that a Developer Team may use in a form that they could download to their PCs and use in their projects, thinking in a free IDE environment where could be JDeveloper, NetBeans and Eclipse in use.
I'm thinking in use Subversion to upload the different Java libraries files to a Subversion Repository and then each Developer Team doing a checkout of what they need, but I think it's not the primary use to do with the versioning system.
Please, could somebody point me out if there is any product that could fit my needs about managing Java libraries ?
Thanks in advance.
Angel.

Answer 1

- limit the set of packages to those which have been approved by the processYou can constrain Maven to only use an internal repository from which to pull libraries. If you don't put the libraries in the repository you can't use them in your project.
- limit the packages by licenseI don't think there's anything built in to do this. There's a space for that information in the pom (metadata) file though, so it would be possible to do so. You'd probably have to do some work on the repository to bring ensure the fields was populated though - I get the impression that it tends not to be by default.
- produce audit logs of what the dependencies and licenses used by each project isDependencies yes, certainly. Licenses again I don't think there's anything existing but you could probably adapt the dependency plugin to report this.
Example dependency tree generated by Maven for JA-SIG CAS:
[INFO] [dependency:tree]
[INFO] org.jasig.cas:cas-server-webapp:war:3.2.1
[INFO] +- log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.15:runtime
[INFO] +- net.sf.ehcache:ehcache:jar:1.4.0-beta2:runtime
[INFO] |  +- net.sf.jsr107cache:jsr107cache:jar:1.0:runtime
[INFO] |  \- backport-util-concurrent:backport-util-concurrent:jar:3.0:runtime
[INFO] +- commons-lang:commons-lang:jar:2.2:runtime (scope not updated to compile)
[INFO] +- quartz:quartz:jar:1.5.2:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap:jar:1.2.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-tiger:jar:1.2.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-context-support:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] +- javax.servlet:jstl:jar:1.1.2:compile
[INFO] +- javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.4:provided (scope not updated to compile)
[INFO] +- ognl:ognl:jar:2.6.9:runtime (scope not updated to compile)
[INFO] +- junit:junit:jar:3.8.1:test
[INFO] +- org.acegisecurity:acegi-security:jar:1.0.6:runtime
[INFO] |  +- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.3:runtime
[INFO] |  \- oro:oro:jar:2.0.8:runtime
[INFO] +- cas:casclient:jar:2.1.1:runtime
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] |  \- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-test:jar:2.5.1:test
[INFO] +- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-webflow:jar:1.0.5:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-binding:jar:1.0.5:compile
[INFO] +- org.inspektr:inspektr-core:jar:0.6.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- aspectj:aspectjweaver:jar:1.5.3:runtime
[INFO] |  +- aspectj:aspectjrt:jar:1.5.3:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-jdbc:jar:1.2.9:compile
[INFO] |     \- org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.jasig.cas:cas-server-core:jar:3.2.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.jasig.service:person-directory-impl:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.jasig.service:person-directory-api:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:3.2:compile
[INFO] |  +- jdom:jdom:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:2.5.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.apache.santuario:xmlsec:jar:1.4.0:runtime
[INFO] |  +- org.opensaml:opensaml:jar:1.1b:compile
[INFO] |  +- javax.persistence:persistence-api:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] |  \- javax.xml:xmldsig:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] \- taglibs:standard:jar:1.1.2:compile