Monday, August 19, 2013

Goodbye Jarvana

After five years, I've decided to take down Jarvana, the maven repository search engine. For a year and a half now, I have been unable to obtain new central maven repository data. Since up-to-date data is critical to application development, not being able to index new maven repository data essentially makes Jarvana obsolete. Although Jarvana is gone, I'm happy that Jarvana was able to helps many thousands of developers over the last five years. Jarvana was a great learning experience, since it represented my first serious experience with Lucene. Thank you to Doug Cutting and the rest of the Lucene developers for creating and maintaining such a great open-source project. You guys are awesome. Jarvana wouldn't have been possible without Lucene and several other Apache Software Foundation projects.