Ivy - Default configuration

Ivy is configured in a ivysettings.xml file.

Now the interesting news - this ivysettings.xml can point to other settings.xml files, which in turn can point to other settings.xml and so on.

So, you can restrict ivy configuration to a single long ivysettings.xml file or distribute it to several short (specific) settings.xml files.

By default, Ivy ships with a ivysettings.xml file which points to 5 other settings.xml file.

It looks like this:

 <ivysettings>  
  <settings defaultResolver="default"/>  
  <include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-public.xml"/>  
  <include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-shared.xml"/>  
  <include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-local.xml"/>  
  <include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-main-chain.xml"/>  
  <include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-default-chain.xml"/>  
 </ivysettings>  
   

The ${ivy.default.settings.dir} by default points to the ./ivy directory in your home directory

The ivysettings-public.xml, ivysettings-shared.xml, ivysettings-local.xml files point to resolvers for your public, shared and local repositories.

The ivysettings-main-chain.xml and ivysettings-default-chain.xml specify the order in which Ivy will look at repositories.