Alfresco Community / Enterprise artifacts in artifacts.alfresco.com do not provide POM files / dependencies declarations

Maven artifacts normally come with proper dependency declarations in POM files.

At the moment we only publish Alfresco binary artifacts only with generated empty POMs (https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Artifacts_Repository#A_note_on_3rd_party_dependencies).

Having at least declared in POMs:

• license
• dependencies

for each delivered JAR/WAR would allow a number of automated process like:

• Extensions unit testing
• Legal overlook for Alfresco deployments in controlled Enterprise environments
• Full blown SDKs based on the Maven repository layout (e.g. Maven, Gradle, Ivy)
• Making Alfresco available on Maven Central (http://repo1.maven.org)

This mainly comprise of few sub-tasks:

1. Identify GA dependencies specific to each alfresco module
2. Identify Alfresco patched dependencies specific to each alfresco module
3. Make deps at #2 available (with sources) on artifacts.alfresco.com
4. Declare transitive dependencies (for JARs and WARs) in POM files (and maintain them across releases)
5. Add POM deployment to the procedure of ALF-11027

An intermediate attempt (simplified) could be:

1. Define a plaftform-pom which represents the full SDK
2. Add in this platform POM the alfresco-* dependencies and all the well known transitive dependencies in a flattened fashion
3. Deploy this per release