Maven 2: Spring and JTA dependencies

Posted by Lucio Benfante Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:06:00 GMT

Few weeks ago I started using Maven 2 for one of my development projects. The project is very simple, but it has dependencies with some external libraries, in particular with Spring:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.6</version>
  <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

Introducing this dependency I had the following errors:

Downloading: ->
    http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/transaction ->
      /jta/1.0.1B/jta-1.0.1B.jar
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central ->
    (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
...
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

required artifacts missing:
 javax.transaction:jta:jar:1.0.1B

This happened because Spring has a transitive dependency with the Sun’s JTA classes, but the JTA jar can’t be inserted in the Maven repository because the Sun’s Binary License.

For solving this dependency you have to download the jta-1_0_1B-classes.zip file from the Sun’s site and install it into your local repository using the following command:

mvn install:install-file \
  -Dfile=./jta-1_0_1B-classes.zip \
  -DgroupId=javax.transaction \
  -DartifactId=jta -Dversion=1.0.1B \
  -Dpackaging=jar

More general information in these Maven’s mini guides:

Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tags dependency, jta, maven, spring | 28 comments

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sohallor said 477 days later:

Thanks, very useful!
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fbregnvig said 557 days later:

Thanks, very helpful indeed!
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cav said 563 days later:

Thanks , the problem is solved!
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mike said 622 days later:

Thank you! Clean & concise, this is exactly what I wanted.
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Sumit said 652 days later:

Thanks, was just what I needed to know.
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Nick said 657 days later:

thanks man, you saved me a lot of time
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Henrik said 704 days later:

U can also point the maven rep to: http://download.java.net/maven/2/javax/transaction/jta/1.0.1B/
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dcasiel@yahoo.com said 758 days later:

Thanks a lot :) This is the only good explanation of the problem that I saw after long search.
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Retschgi said 759 days later:

Thank you! You made my day!
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James said 761 days later:

Exactly the information I needed, thanks!
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Imran M Yousuf said 765 days later:

Thanks! it is quite helpful
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Olivier said 788 days later:

Thanks a lot :p
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Nuwi said 801 days later:

Gracias!!!
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Pierre said 836 days later:

Thanks! It solved my packaging problem!
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Sunil said 900 days later:

Thanks dude, this helped
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salvi said 917 days later:

thanks, this solve my problem
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gerardo said 922 days later:

gracias, me sirvio mucho , directo y conciso
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Jörn Zaefferer said 958 days later:

Henriks hint at the java.net repository was a very welcome addition. Just add it to your repositories element:
```
<repository>
    <id>java.net</id>
    <name>java.net</name>
    <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
</repository>
```
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simon massey said 997 days later:

N.B. the above approaches of directly injected into your cache or including a different maven server will make our project unportable to other developer workstations as they will have to hack their settings.xml to get things to work. instead you can do the following:

configure maven to include hibernate artifacts but not the dependency to jta. particularly if you are going to deploy to a container that will provide the class itself you will have to do nothing else. use the following syntax:
org.hibernate hibernate-entitymanager ${hibernate.version} javax.transaction jta
if you are actually going to compile against jta then use the geronimo implimentation of the jta library that does not have a liciensing issue.
org.apache.geronimo.specs geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec 1.1.1
simply go to mvnrepository.com and search for geronimo-jta to find the correct version of the jta spec to include for your project.

happy coding.

simon massey said 997 days later:
that will teach me not to preview! the pom fragments are as follows:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
              <exclusion>
                <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
                <artifactId>jta</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

and

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
    <artifactId>geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>

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chris_five said 1025 days later:

no luck at mvnrepository.com. jar file can be downloaded here: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/apache/geronimo/specs/geronimo-jta_1.1_spec/1.1.1/
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felipper said 1482 days later:

Cool! Exactaly what I want.
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kris said 1540 days later:

this what i am looking for
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Tyler Pedersen said 1544 days later:

Very well written. Thanks.
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mvnhtr said 1551 days later:

And this is still a problem over 4 years later! geez.
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Gustaf said 1571 days later:

Really helpful! Thanks a lot…/G
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Bakhyt said 1588 days later:

Thanx, helpful! )))
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Chirs Miller said 1699 days later:

nicely explained about decreasing the dependancies. thanks. keep on good work.