Which is the right version maven repository for geotools postgis?

Question

The documentation seems to indicate that the right maven repository to use is:

  <repository>
     <id>osgeo</id>
     <name>Open Source Geospatial Foundation Repository</name>
     <url>http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/</url>
  </repository>

However, it seems that the latest version on this repository was last updated in 2014. https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.geotools.jdbc/gt-jdbc-postgis?repo=osgeo

On the other hand, the Boundless one seems to be carrying a much more updated version than the other repositories. This one was last updated in September 2018: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.geotools.jdbc/gt-jdbc-postgis/20.0

However, the documentation states that the Boundless repository is for snapshots.

Which is the proper version to use?

Answer 1

The OSGeo repository is the correct one for stable builds (I'm not sure where mvnrepository.com gets its information from) - see http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/org/geotools/jdbc/gt-jdbc-postgis/20.0/ for the latest PostGIS jar.

Update

Since the demise of Boundless the correct repository for snapshots is:

 <repository>
    <id>osgeo-snapshot</id>
    <name>OSGeo Snapshot Repository</name>
    <url>https://repo.osgeo.org/repository/snapshot/</url>
    <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
    <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases>
  </repository>

This is all documented in the Maven Quick start which is the minimum you should read before starting with GeoTools.

Answer 2

I struggled a bit on the same issue since some, even recent, documentation is still reporting dead repository.

Below is the repository node I am using in my pom.xml file (of course I am talking about a Maven project) Look at https://repo.boundlessgeo.com/main/org/geotools/gt-main/ to get the list of version supported by the Boundless repository.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>osgeo</id>
        <name>Open Source Geospatial Foundation Repository</name>
        <url>http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </snapshots>
        <id>boundless</id>
        <name>Boundless Maven Repository</name>
        <url>http://repo.boundlessgeo.com/main</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Answer 3

The correct repo for Osgeo tools is https://repo.osgeo.org/repository/release/

This was announced here https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/new-osgeo-repo/

As the GeoTools documentation says, you should have the pom.xml like this:

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>osgeo</id>
    <name>OSGeo Release Repository</name>
    <url>https://repo.osgeo.org/repository/release/</url>
    <snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots>
    <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
  </repository>
</repositories>