Heron master branch and Java typologies with maven

Heron uses Bazel as a build tool. So the jar files it creates are not installed in maven automatically. If you are trying to develop a topology with the latest source code of Heron using the Heron API jars from the online maven repositories may not be an option. In that case you can build Heron and install the jars manually in local maven repository to get your project build.

The important Jar for the project is heron-storm.jar. After building heron, this jar can be found in

 
$HERON_SRC/bazel-genfiles/heron/storm/src/java

Now lets install this jar manually in to local maven repo.

 
cd HERON_SRC/bazel-genfiles/heron/storm/src/java
mvn install:install-file -DcreateChecksum=true -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=heron-storm.jar -DgroupId=com.twitter.heron -DartifactId=heron-storm -Dversion=VERSION

You can give a fake version like 0.14.2-SNAPSHOT when installing the jar file.

Now we can include this jar in our topology as a maven dependency.

  
    com.twitter.heron
    heron-storm
    VERSION