How to add dependency JAR in java azure functions

Question

Is there a way to add third party jars to Azure functions using JAVA. I would need to have the json-simple jar and jackson-databind jars to be available for the function at

Answer 1

The latest version of pom.xml generated by the azure-functions-archetype that you use to prepare the Azure Function project (see this link for more details) seems to already include the plugin to copy dependencies.

My pom.xml includes the following plugin by default, and it seems to copy the dependencies that I have specified into the ${stagingDirectory}/lib automatically.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-dependency-plugin
    
        
            copy-dependencies
            prepare-package
            
                copy-dependencies
            
            
                ${stagingDirectory}/lib
                false
                false
                true
                runtime
                azure-functions-java-library