Can I add jars to maven 2 build classpath without installing them?

Question

Maven2 is driving me crazy during the experimentation / quick and dirty mock-up phase of development.

I have a pom.xml file that defines the dependenc

Answer 1

To install the 3rd party jar which is not in maven repository use maven-install-plugin.

Below are steps:

1. Download the jar file manually from the source (website)
2. Create a folder and place your jar file in it
3. Run the below command to install the 3rd party jar in your local maven repository

mvn install:install-file -Dfile= -DgroupId= -DartifactId= -Dversion= -Dpackaging=

Below is the e.g one I used it for simonsite log4j

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/Users/athanka/git/MyProject/repo/log4j-rolling-appender.jar -DgroupId=uk.org.simonsite -DartifactId=log4j-rolling-appender -Dversion=20150607-2059 -Dpackaging=jar

4. In the pom.xml include the dependency as below

      
           uk.org.simonsite
           log4j-rolling-appender
           20150607-2059 
     
   

5. Run the mvn clean install command to create your packaging

Below is the reference link:

https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html