maven-url-handler

Universal maven: urls handling module. Can be used in Wildfly and Tomcat (Spring Boot) applications.

format

Handling URL protocol for maven dependency format (like other protocols: http, file, ftp etc.), example:

maven:hu.icellmobilsoft.coffee:coffee-dto-xsd:jar::!/xsd/hu/icellmobilsoft/coffee/dto/common/common.xsd

The format is: maven:groupId:artifactId:package:version:!file_path

• protocol - the URL schema protocol [maven]

• groupId - the maven groupId [hu.icellmobilsoft.coffee.dto.xsd]

• artifactId - the maven artifactId [coffee-dto-xsd]

• package - the maven package [jar]

• version - the maven version, optional

• file_path - the path of the .xsd file inside the jar

Install

To properly use this module, the java URL protocol handler must be registered in the application server. It can be done by adding the module to the server, or by adding the handler to the application.

Wildfly

This artifact must be installed as a wildfly module and server must be started with the additional JAVA_OPT value: -Djboss.protocol.handler.modules=com.btmssds.maven.protocol

installing with jboss-cli.sh

module add --name=com.btmssds.maven.protocol --resources=maven-url-handler-module-1.0.0.jar

Tomcat (Spring Boot)

import jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct;

import com.btmssds.maven.protocol.MavenUrlStreamHandlerProvider;
import org.apache.catalina.webresources.TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
public class Starter {

    @PostConstruct
    private void init() {
        TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory.getInstance().addUserFactory(new MavenUrlStreamHandlerProvider());
    }
}

usage

Maven dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.btmssds.urlhandler</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-url-handler-module</artifactId>
    <version>VERSION</version>
</dependency>

Using in XML catalog

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
    <public
            publicId="http://common.dto.coffee.icellmobilsoft.hu/common"
            uri="maven:hu.icellmobilsoft.coffee:coffee-dto-xsd:jar::!/xsd/hu/icellmobilsoft/coffee/dto/common/common.xsd" /> (1)
</catalog>

1. Schema definition will be read from the maven artifact hu.icellmobilsoft.coffee:coffee-dto-xsd:jar from the path /xsd/hu/icellmobilsoft/coffee/dto/common/common.xsd