Navigating Repositories: Assessing the Impact of External Repositories on Packages in Maven Central

This paper presents a comprehensive experimental study on the use and impact of external repositories in the Maven ecosystem. For this research the prevalence, naming patterns, and potential risks associated with external repositories were analyzed. We analyzed 199,188 packages and found that 3.29% of projects employ external repositories. Our...

An analysis of Java release practices on GitHub

This paper examines the release practices of Java Maven Repositories on GitHub. Most prior research in this vein has been done on Maven Central, the largest Maven package repository. However, GitHub hosts 15.5 million Java repositories, and is left untapped. Additionally of interest is the fact that GitHub provides a competitor to Maven Central,...

Can we extract a relevant, available, and self-contained core of the Maven ecosystem?: Extracting the pillars of the community, and their dependencies.

The Maven ecosystem, with an emphasis on Maven Central, contains a plethora of toy-projects. This paper addresses this problem by formulating a core containing the pillars of the Maven ecosystem, such that it can be exploited for research concerning li- brary quality. The construction of said core is done by analyzing the availability, relevance...

Analyzing Similar Build Configurations Across Different GitHub Projects

GitHub is the home of hundreds of millions of Open Source Software(OSS) repositories where users collaborate on projects and find inspiration for new ideas. Some of these projects have certain build configurations set up to make building, testing, and deploying the software more time-efficient and less error-prone. However, setting up the...

Uncovering secrets of the Maven Repository: Java Build Aspects: An empirical analysis

The Maven Central Repository hosts over 11 million packages. As Maven itself is a build tool for Java, the majority of these packages are Java archives.<br/>This research aims to analyze these packages and look into various build aspects of these projects (the research questions): are Java modules used, what Java versions are used and how is the...

An exploratory study about extent of use of released packages in the Maven Central Repository

Maven Central Repository hosts over 9 million repositories which ease software reuse. Since its appearance, Maven has been studied and character- ized using different popularity and quality metrics, in order to identify defining patterns and possible improvements. This study aims to analyze extent of use of packages released in the Maven Central...

Looking at changes in popularity in the Maven ecosystem

We look at the Maven eco-system and how popularity of packages and its methods change. We want to know if there are any trends that can help developers more efficiently use their time. To look at the popularity we do package analysis and method analysis. We find that there is no correlation between time and popularity on both the package and the...