Adding external JAR to Maven project in NetBeans

Question

When I right click on my Maven project and choose the Add dependency option and I type my external jar\'s name in query, it is not found. How to add external jar to

Answer 1

This answer is for jars that are in the maven repo

Let's say I want to add log4j-1.2.17.jar to my project, all I have to do is find it in maven repository

Step 2 is to copy that and place it inside the dependencies tag of your pom.xml` file:

    
        org.webjars
        bootstrap
        3.3.4
    
    
        log4j
        log4j
        1.2.17
    
     ....
     ....
  

Step 3 Build and clean your project. The jar file will be in your dependencies folder afterwards