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

One small addition to the solution posted by Pascal

When I followed this route, I got an error in maven while installing ojdbc jar.

[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.5.1:install-file (default-cli) @ validator ---
[INFO] pom.xml not found in ojdbc14.jar

After adding -DpomFile, the problem was resolved.

$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile=./lib/ojdbc14.jar -DgroupId=ojdbc \
   -DartifactId=ojdbc -Dversion=14 -Dpackaging=jar -DlocalRepositoryPath=./repo \
   -DpomFile=~/.m2/repository/ojdbc/ojdbc/14/ojdbc-14.pom