putting them in

3rdparty/jvm

seems to work. is there any way to specify multiple artifacts within a single

BUILD

file?

I struggled with this too. It seems that you can have multiple targets per BUILD file if you provide a

name

attribute in each. I also saw this pattern in some repositories:

└── 3rdparty
    ├── jvm
        ├── junit
        |   └── junit
        |       └── BUILD
        └── google
            └── guava
                └── BUILD

ah I see, makes sense, thanks

Do you use pom.xml? If so, putting a

jvm_artifacts()

target in the BUILD file next to it also works (https://www.pantsbuild.org/prerelease/docs/jvm/java-and-scala#pomxml) Another pattern used is putting the artifacts in the closest parent of the code, e.g. if you have all the scala code in

scala/src/...

putting the 3rd party deps in

scala/BUILD

is common.

no I don't have a

pom.xml

, but putting it near the sources makes sense 👍