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Alexa Skills Kit in Maven

Is there a reason that Alexa Skills Kit isn't being pushed to one of the central Maven repositories? As it stands, anyone using Maven has to install the jar directly in their local Maven repo, which is obviously problematic if you're working in a team setting (where each user has to install each version of the skills kit as it is released). Jar management is not something we should be fighting with anymore...
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Amazon aren't sterling when it comes to making their resources available. I've been trying to download the AWS plugin for Eclipse for 8+ hours., I guess they save their "5 nines" reliability for their services...
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Well, I'm wondering if this is more of a policy thing than a technical thing. It's super easy and super free for them to push to a maven repo, and then they don't ever have to worry about it again until they push out a new version. I'm guessing that maybe they're gathering metrics on sdk downloads. It's kind of strange that it's gated behind login to begin with...
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We now have the helper classes and interface for the Alexa sample java skills on maven central. These can be accessed here: http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Ccom.amazon.alexa%7Calexa-skills-kit%7C1.1%7Cjar.
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Thanks Ross! This simplifies things tremendously.
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