Shutting down Version 99 does not exist

July 2007, I was so fed up with Maven's inability to exclude commons-logging that I wrote a virtual maven repository to fake it. A few months later this became Version 99 does not exist. The virtual repository, has been running on my home server ever since.

In the early years, minor changes were made to increase compatibility with more tools.

Unfortunately, in 2011, the virtual repository lost its hostname.

Some time later, I reinstated a proper DNS name for the service: version99.grons.nl. For some unknown reason, I never blogged about this!

In 2013 the original version (90 line of Ruby with Camping), was replaced by a Go implementation written by Frank Schröder. This version (with super minor changes) has been in place ever since.

In the meantime, commons-logging has been replaced by Slf4j and tools have become better at excluding dependencies. Therefore, after almost 18 years, I am shutting down Version 99 does not exist. Version 99, it was fun having you, but luckily we no longer need you.