Manually specifying individual Maven artifacts is very verbose and
error-prone. It also does not properly handle transitive dependencies.
It greatly increases the amount of effort to update dependencies.
v1.27.0 introduced support for maven_install and encouraged users to
migrate. I fully expect some users haven't migrated, but it's not clear
that an additional 8 months would help much. Users that don't want to
use maven_install are still free to do so, but would need to maintain
the verbose repository list themselves.
At some point we may begin using the @maven workspace which would
require maven_install, but are not doing so now (except in the examples)
and don't have immediate plans to start.
maven_install is strongly superior to previous forms of grabbing dependencies
from Maven as it computes the appropriate versions to use from the full
transitive dependencies of all libraries used by an application. It also has
much less boilerplate and includes dependencies with generated targets.
In the future we will drop the jvm_maven_import_external usages and require
maven_install, at which point we can swap to using the `@maven' repository and
no longer depend on compat_repositories.
Fixes#5359
## Bazel
If you prefer to use Bazel:
```
(With Bazel v0.4.5 or above.)
$ bazel build :hello-world-server :hello-world-client
$ # Run the server:
$ bazel-bin/hello-world-server
$ # In another terminal run the client
$ bazel-bin/hello-world-client
```
Eric Anderson
Carl Mastrangelo
sanjaypujare
Carmi Grushko
ZHANG Dapeng