Apache Maven

One of the scariest things I think we all saw when we were trying to figure this whole thing out was we gave our agent a task, but the environment wasn't set up correctly.

And it didn't know about our CI system in terms of how to get the right versions of Java and Maven and some other things.

but because it's a non-deterministic system and very similar to what we see new hires do okay i don't have java what am i going to do oh i'm going to go look on the internet to go get a version of java okay well i can't download that version of java well let me go find another thing i'm going to build a curl command to go find a different version that i know about based on my lom training And when we saw this play out, we're like, absolutely not.

We have to sandbox this.

But that was the whole point of dependency management.

That's why we use Maven, right? It's like, you know, I want this function, give it to me so I can move on, right? And, you know, it's funny, was it three years ago we had the Log4j issue? And look at what it did [laughs] to a whole industry, whole companies.

Log, Log4j.

Like, everybody was like, "What the hell?" And it just screwed up everybody.

So there is an integration between these two projects, even on this level, because this is something we felt is something someone might use because it's useful.

But is it the Helidon Media Jason P.? It is not that, right? So if you had it on dash media dash JSONP, it's the Maven coordinates.

It starts with JSONP support.

This is not this, right?

written the Docker file, why do I need the...

Just having Maven call that step wasn't interesting to me.

It's not writing the Docker file in the first place and mapping my world to that, especially since when it comes to running the application, I don't know what the world looks like.

I don't have the whole map of what the world of running a software process looks like.

Right? Which is cool, of course.

And we have our own build pack, also the Paqueta build pack.

You can specify that in your Maven or Gradle plugin, again.

And it uses, instead of Ubuntu, it uses Alpaquita, our own minimal OS.

And since we haven't talked about this, David, I want to go ahead and just draw the comparisons because I'm a Java guy.

So Sonotype runs Maven Central.

The way I've sort of read it is ArcGIS runs the NPM registry.

Is that correct?

But I look at it and go, where is all this stuff coming from? Because, again, coming from the Java ecosystem, I see a .m2 directory and there's all the thousands of .jar files.

It's like, okay, great.

I'm doing a fresh Maven install.

Perfect.

And he wanted to create a startup, a software startup, because he retired and he used that and it works.

So it is like, I think the simplest possible thing, you only need the credentials, Maven, and it works.

And how is it deploying it? Does it do it as Lambda? But I mean, is it creating like a Docker image? Zip.

No, no, no.

Mm

... and Java, Maven, and Gradle and things like that, um, in Nx itself.

And then on top of that, there's open source projects, uh, for other, supporting other programming languages like Python and Go and things like that.

So it's, it's, uh, at this point it's a, uh, what's it called? A, a, a polyglot toolchain for-