Maven: add a dependency to a jar by relative path

Question

I have a proprietary jar that I want to add to my pom as a dependency.

But I don\'t want to add it to a repository. The reason is that I want my usual maven commands

Answer 1

This is working for me: Let's say I have this dependency

    com.company.app
    my-library
    1.0
    system
    ${project.basedir}/lib/my-library.jar

Then, add the class-path for your system dependency manually like this

libs/my-library-1.0.jar

Full config:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-jar-plugin
    2.4
    
        
            
                ${jdk.version}
                ${project.name}
                ${project.version}
                ${project.name} Library
                ${project.version}
                libs/my-library-1.0.jar
            
            
                true
                com.company.app.MainClass
                libs/
            
        
    


    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-dependency-plugin
    2.5.1
    
        
            copy-dependencies
            package
            
                copy-dependencies
            
            
                ${project.build.directory}/libs/