# integrate Maven repository API (Aether) into Ansible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 17, 2015, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/integrate-maven-repository-api-aether-into-ansible/17763 "2015-03-17T10:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Torsten\_Reinhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Torsten\_Reinhard](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Torsten_Reinhard)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/integrate-maven-repository-api-aether-into-ansible/17763/1 "2015-03-17T10:34:05Z")
Hi, our developers use Maven for their (local) builds which stores artifacts in the local filesystem (~/.m2/repository) The build server uses the same build - and uploads artifact to a repository server (Nexus), which is a quite common setup I guess. Now we have introduced Ansible - for deployment purposes, which works quite good. It´s accessing the Nexus URL - and downloads the needed artifacts. From developement side it would be useful to be also able to use the local filesystem repository (~/.m2/repository) first, before looking in the remote repository (Nexus). Of course we can “wrap” this inside a role, introduce some properties to switch between local and remote repository and so on, but for me this looks like re-inventing the wheel. Much more smarter may be to use “Aether” as the API to access the artifact repository, because than we can rely on it´s functionality to cache downloaded artifacts, to handle updated SNAPSHOT versions and so on. Another benefit would be, that whenever a Maven build has already downloaded an artifact to the (local) repository, the Ansible run can use this, too, so the Maven repository behaves like a “Ansible get\_url cache”. Has anyone setup this already? Or other ideas to integrate Maven´s repository with Ansible ? Thanx for any advice, Torsten