maven install and deploy 3rd party dependencies with simple command line

Question

We have a number of third party dependencies that aren\'t hosted anywhere. For each of these we have a jar file that we\'d like to be able to install and/or deploy to our reposi

Answer 1

Ok, I found a solution that allows me to run just mvn install or mvn deploy and have the jar file installed to the local or remote repository. Inspired by a post to the maven-users list and using the build-helper plugin, in the parent pom, I have:

    
        
        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            build-helper-maven-plugin
            1.5
            
                
                    attach-artifacts
                    package
                    
                        attach-artifact
                    
                    
                        
                            
                                ${artifactId}-${version}.jar
                                jar
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

And then in the child poms, I have:

pom
...
...
...
...

    
        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            build-helper-maven-plugin
        
    

Some of the pieces of this that initially tripped me up:

• The attach-artifact execution should be under so it doesn't get executed if you mvn install or mvn deploy the parent pom.
• The children need to specify the build-helper-maven-plugin under the build plugins so that code from the parent gets run.
• The children have to be declared as having pom because you can't add a jar to an artifact if it has the same name as the artifact.

The only downside I see to this approach is that the artifact gets deployed as type pom instead of type jar. But I haven't seen any real consequences of that.