Or try Maven:

http://maven.apache.org/

Not quite the same as CPAN, but...

> The Apache folks have a bunch of good stuff under the Jakarta project:
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/
>
> Note also the "Ex-Jakarta" list on that page.
>
> --Peter Keane
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
>> When I want to find a nice collection of Perl modules I go to CPAN.
>> If I wanted to find a PHP extension I would go to PEAR. Where would I
>> go if I wanted to search/browse collections of freely available, open
>> source Java packages?
>>
>> --
>> Eric Lease Morgan
>
>



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