title: Accessing custom (non-Java) artifact repository from Maven
body: <p>I'm looking for a way to access a custom, non-Java, artifact repository with Maven. We have an artifact repository consisting (more or less) of a bunch of zip files (containing native executables, header files, etc.) on a Windows share. These are accessed by a Ruby script which can materialize/unpack these artifacts as needed. There are also artifacts which are not stored on disk, but is materialized from other places (Subversion, for example).</p>
  
  <p>I would like to be able to integrate these repositories into a Maven build, so that (for example) integration tests can use .exe and .dll files from the native artifacts. I've looked at Nexus and Artifactory, but it is difficult to tell how well they would suit this scenario. Most of the documentation around "custom layouts" seem to assume that we are talking about Java artifacts of some kind.</p>