Maven: Including jar not found in public repository

Question

If I was to use a 3rd party library that was not in the maven public repository, what is the best way to include it as dependency for my project so that when someone else ch

Answer 1

If you have a parent project with a module that is in this situation (requires a dependency not in a repository) you can setup your parent project to use the exec-maven-plugin plugin to auto-install your dependent file. For example, I had to do this with the authorize.net jar file since it is not publicly available.

Parent POM:

    
        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            exec-maven-plugin
            1.2.1
            false
            
                
                    install-anet
                    validate
                    
                        exec
                    
                
            
            
                mvn
                
                    install:install-file
                    -Dfile=service/lib/anet-java-sdk-1.4.6.jar
                    -DgroupId=net.authorize
                    -DartifactId=anet-java-sdk
                    -Dversion=1.4.6
                    -Dpackaging=jar
                
            
        
    

In the above example, the location of the jar is in the lib folder of the "service" module.

By the time the service module enters the validate phase, the jar will be available in the local repository. Simply reference it in the way you set up the groupid, artifact, etc in the parent pom. For example:

    net.authorize
    anet-java-sdk
    1.4.6