WELCOME
Welcome to the documentation for the Central Repository.
Serving Open Source Components Since 2002
Why Use Central?
Ease of Use
The Central Repository is the default repository for Apache Maven, SBT and
other build systems and can be easily used from Apache Ant/Ivy, Gradle and
many other tools.
Ubiquitous
Open source organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation, the
Eclipse Foundation, JBoss and many individual open source projects publish
their components to the Central Repository.
What You Want
When you develop software, you depend on open source components. And these
external libraries are predictably available on the Central Repository.
Know more about Central...
And Publishing is Easy!
Requirements
There are some minimal
requirements for publishing your component to the
Central Repository. These are things that the community has insisted upon:
in short, the basic elements of quality metadata that developers rely on.
Register Your Project
We have to know information about your project: where artifacts are hosted
so that they can be incorporated into the Central Repository; and where to
publish them.
Deploy Your Components
Your deployment procedure ensures the basic requirements are met and uploads
your components. There are many tools available for this and we have
documentation available for the most popular ones.
See the Deployment Guide