In the end I had to do some ugly classpath overriding to get it to work in the way I expected by writing my own modified version of Spring’s HandlerMethodInvoker. If you hit similar issues I suggest following this JIRA: http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-7114 and feel free to use the attached code on the JIRA. It’s been working great for me now.

1. I want to use Spring for config
2. I want to have a play with Compass – the lucene abstraction

Out of the box Ivy will use the “ibiblio” resolver which makes use of the Ibiblio’s Maven repository. This is not really the greatest starting point as its not so easy to find stuff in. Spring however have their own repository with a lot of open source libraries and is much easier to search http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/. So my ivy.xml file looks like:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ivy -module version="2.0">

	<info organisation="matt" module="compassTest" status="integration" />

	<dependencies>
		<dependency org="org.springframework" name="org.springframework.context.support"
			rev="2.5.6.A" />
		<dependency org="org.compass-project" name="compass" rev="2.2.0-M2" />
	</dependencies>

</ivy>

Very simply I want to use Springs context support classes and I want to have play with Compass. In order to get this all to work I needed to create my own ivy-settings.xml with some new resolvers. First I need to add Springs repository resolvers (Doc’d here), then I need to add Compass’s Maven repo and finally Compass depends on a version of Lucene not in Springs repository so I need to add in ibiblio’s Maven2 repository. My final ivy-settings.xml file looks like:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ivysettings>
	<settings defaultResolver="spring.compass.ibiblio" checkUpToDate="true" />
	<resolvers>
		<chain name="spring.compass.ibiblio">
			<url name="com.springsource.repository.bundles.release">
				<ivy pattern="http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/bundles/release/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]" />
				<artifact pattern="http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/bundles/release/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]" />
			</url>
			<url name="com.springsource.repository.bundles.external">
				<ivy pattern="http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/bundles/external/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]" />
				<artifact pattern="http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/bundles/external/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]" />
			</url>
			<ibiblio name="compass" m2compatible="true" root="http://repo.compass-project.org" />
			<ibiblio name="ibiblio" m2compatible="true" />
		</chain>

	</resolvers>
</ivysettings>

After plugging the above into Eclipse and setting up my IvyDE classpath container to use the new ivy-settings.xml file all was good. Simples!

Yesterday

Yesterday

Fusion Mini Mix 2 (2Mb wma 5mins exactly!)

1. Windowlicker – Aphex Twin
2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) – Eurythmics
3. Base 6 – The Chemical Brothers
4. Hot In Herre – Tiga
5. Singin’ In The Rain – Mint Royale
6. Walking Away (Tocadisco Remix) – The Egg
7. Technologic – Daft Punk
8. Deceptacon – Le Tigre
9. 24 Hours – Agent Sumo
10. Get Me Off – Basement Jaxx
11. Eple (Shakedown Remix) – Royksopp
12. You Gonna Want Me – Tiga
13. Base 6 – The Chemical Brothers
14. Feelin’ Kinda Strange – Drumattic Twins
15. Restless – Evil 9
16. Push Up – Freestylers
17. Phat Planet – Leftfield
18. Dig Your Own Hole – The Chemical Brothers
19. Smack My Bitch Up – The Prodigy
20. The Private Psychedelic Ree – The Chemical Brothers
21. Spybreak! – Propellorheads
22. The Rebel (Acapella) – Public Enemy
23. Mindset To Cycle – FC Kahuna
24. Flat Beat – Mr Oizo
25. Rock The Casbah – The Clash
26. Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
27. Eruption – Van Halen