How does antivy work?

Question

Java

Hello.
When I specify this line in ivy.xml

<dependency name="primefaces" org="org.primefaces" rev="4.0" />

ivy downloads this component by itself? Or does it need to be specified in the xml configuration, downloaded and copied somewhere yourself?

Answer 1

Ivy downloads himself. If you know where to download. To do this, you need to specify the resolver in ivysettingx.xml. And, of course, you need to put a command in build.xml that initiates the download.
In general, all dependency resolution and assembly instructions must be present explicitly. Ivy only allows you to automate the process of managing dependencies - and nothing more. If you don't like this approach, then use Maven instead of Ant+Ivy.