Maven exec plugin- how to include “system” classpath?

Question

I have a project that uses \"system\" scope to specify a jar file included in my project\'s WEB-INF/lib dir. This artifact is not in any of the maven repositori

Answer 1

Interesting to know that classpathScope=system drops runtime dependencies. I found that by including it as a plugin in the pom.xml works as an alternative. Could you please try and let me know if it works for you too?

So I added a system level dependency to commons-collection as an example like you have for your artifact:-

 
        commons-collections
      commons-collections
      3.0
        system
        C:\\\\commons-collections-3.0.jar
    

Then in the tag I have the exec-maven-plugin plugin to be executed in the install phase:-

   org.codehaus.mojo
   exec-maven-plugin
   1.1
   
    
     install
     
      java
     
     
      com.stackoverflow.test.App
     
    
   
  

Then I ran mvn install. I also made sure com.stackoverflow.test.App class has some code that invokes a class from commons-collections-3.0.

Hope this helps.