To deploy a process in my current project, I use Apache Ivy to resolve its dependencies (starting from a small set of top-level modules). Then I cache the resul

To deploy a process in my current project, I use Apache Ivy to resolve its dependencies (starting from a small set of top-level modules). Then I cache the results because Ivy resolution tends to take a while when you have a lot of dependencies and a lot of repositories. Then I send a message to a remote agent with the command to run (classpath, main class, jvm args, args, configuration, etc). The agent then downloads the jars that are not already present in its cache with a valid SHA-1 checksum then starts. Works quite well.