maven generating pom file

Question

I use maven 3.0.3 and have tried to generate pom for third-party jar like this:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=cobra.jar -DgroupId=com.cobra -Darti

Answer 1

I found a bypass. You need to create a simple pom.xml like this :

    4.0.0
    com.cobra
    cobra
    0.98.4

It's not perfect but it's worked for me. If you find a better way to do that, I'm interested.

My config :

$mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100)
Maven home: /usr/local/maven
Java version: 1.6.0_20, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_20/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-25-generic-pae", arch: "i386", family: "unix"

$mvn -Dplugin=install help:describe
...
Name: Maven Install Plugin
Description: Copies the project artifacts to the user's local repository.
Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
Artifact Id: maven-install-plugin
Version: 2.3.1
Goal Prefix: install
...