Maven: How to include jars, which are not available in reps into a J2EE project?

Question

in my J2EE project I\'ve a couple of dependencies, which are not available in any Maven repository, because they\'re proprietary libraries. These libraries need to be availa

Answer 1

@Ric Jafe's solution is what worked for me.

This is exactly what I was looking for. A way to push it through for research test code. Nothing fancy. Yeah I know that that's what they all say :) The various maven plugin solutions seem to be overkill for my purposes. I have some jars that were given to me as 3rd party libs with a pom file. I want it to compile/run quickly. This solution which I trivially adapted to python worked wonders for me. Cut and pasted into my pom. Python/Perl code for this task is in this Q&A: Can I add jars to maven 2 build classpath without installing them?

def AddJars(jarList):
  s1 = ''
  for elem in jarList:
   s1+= """
     
        local.dummy
        %s
        0.0.1
        system
        ${project.basedir}/manual_jars/%s
     \n"""%(elem, elem)
  return s1