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
pom.xml
This doesn't answer how to add them to your POM, and may be a no brainer, but would just adding the lib dir to your classpath work? I know that is what I do when I need an external jar that I don't want to add to my Maven repos.
Hope this helps.