Forgive the double post but I am keen on an answer to this.
I would like some advice as to the approach I am taking. I am using Ivy for dependency management and am able to download and use all my jar files no issues. I would like to also run the <schemavalidate>
task in Ant and would like to use Ivy to download the xsd's and dtd's as specified, thereby eliminating the need for a network connection after the initial download and also reducing my build time. I think I have a solution but wanted to run it
by some extra eyes for a sanity check and suggestions for possible improvements. Below is the relevant parts of my build scripts. The first call to retrieve uses my default ivysettings.xml and second call uses a settings file specific for retrieving xsd's and dtd's. Any feedback would be appreciated.
build.xml:
<project etc>
...
<target name="resolve" description="Retrieve dependencies with ivy">
<ivy:retrieve refresh="true"
sync="true"
conf="compile,war,runtime,test,findbugs"
pattern="${ivy.lib.dir}/[conf]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"/>
<ivy:settings id="xsd.settings"
file="${search.server.home}/ivysettings-xsd.xml"/>
<ivy:retrieve settingsref="xsd.settings"
refresh="false"
sync="false"
conf="xmlentities"
pattern="${ivy.lib.dir}/[conf]/[artifact].[ext]"/>
</target>
...
</project>
ivy.xml:
<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:e="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/extra">
<dependencies>
<!-- Jar files defined here but removed for brevity -->
...
<dependency org="beans" name="spring-beans" rev="3.0" conf="xmlentities->default">
<artifact name="spring-beans" type="xsd"/>
</dependency>
<dependency org="context" name="spring-context" rev="3.0" conf="xmlentities->default">
<artifact name="spring-context" type="xsd"/>
</dependency>
<dependency org="mvc" name="spring-mvc" rev="3.0" conf="xmlentities->default">
<artifact name="spring-mvc" type="xsd"/>
</dependency>
<dependency org="tool" name="spring-tool" rev="3.0" conf="xmlentities->default">
<artifact name="spring-tool" type="xsd"/>
</dependency>
<dependency org="util" name="spring-util" rev="3.0" conf="xmlentities->default">
<artifact name="spring-util" type="xsd"/>
</dependency>
<dependency org="javaee" name="javaee" rev="5" conf="xmlentities->default">
<artifact name="javaee_5" type="xsd"/>
<artifact name="web-app_2_5" type="xsd"/>
<artifact name="javaee_web_services_client_1_2" type="xsd"/>
<artifact name="jsp_2_1" type="xsd"/>
</dependency>
<dependency org="xmlschema" name="xmlschema" rev="2001" conf="xmlentities->default">
<artifact name="XMLSchema" type="xsd"/>
<artifact name="xml" type="xsd"/>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</ivy-module>
ivysettings-xsd.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ivysettings>
<settings defaultResolver="namespaces"/>
<resolvers>
<chain name="namespaces" returnFirst="true">
<url name="w3-org-ns" checksums="">
<artifact pattern="http://www.w3.org/2001/[artifact].[ext]"/>
</url>
<url name="javaee-ns" checksums="">
<artifact pattern="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/[artifact].[ext]"/>
</url>
<url name="spring-ns" checksums="">
<artifact pattern="http://www.springframework.org/schema/[organisation]/[artifact].[ext]"/>
</url>
</chain>
</resolvers>
</ivysettings>
Ben