[OFBIZ-12171] Handling the JCenter shutdown

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Release Branch 18.12, Trunk
• Fix Version/s: 18.12.02
• Component/s: ALL APPLICATIONS, ALL COMPONENTS, ALL PLUGINS
• Labels: backport-needed
• Assignee: Michael Brohl
• Reporter: Michael Brohl
• Created: 06/Feb/21 10:16
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 09:36
• Resolved: 21/Dec/21 15:12

Description

Citing Taher's message at [2]:

Hello Everyone,

I received emails and checked resources [1] that seem to confirm JCenter from JFrog is going down and that the last day of operation for the repository is going to be May 1st 2021.

This is a big deal as many running instances will crash unless updated, so not only do future versions of OFBiz need to adapt, but also existing installations.

I'm not sure how to best handle this? Especially for production instances out there on older versions of OFBiz. Maybe one solution is to host the existing libraries in some temporary location or try to migrate them to MavenCentral ... Whatever is the solution I think we should make a fast move.

[1] https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/jfrog-jcenter-bintray-closure

[2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf8e883ca8b90d51ad9d6d48c46f8f1fcc1cb82cce802daeeab0b910a%40%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E

 

Issue Links

• relates to: OFBIZ-10213 Update build.gradle to the latest dependencies
• relates to: OFBIZ-12192 Replace Bintray by a new place to upload the Gradle Wrapper
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #53
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #58
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #59
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #270
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #276
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #278