Install File Using POM instead of commandline

Question

I\'m currently using:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile={path/to/my/legacy.jar} -DgroupId=horrible -DartifactId=legacy.jar -Dversion=1.2.3 -Dpackaging=jar
         


        

Answer 1

Okay, answering my own question :P. You can do this by defining properties, I originally assumed the groupId etc were auto exported as properties but they are not.

  4.0.0
  com.whatever
  Stuff
  1.2.3

  
  Description of why this horrible jar exists.
  

   
    ${project.groupId}
    ${project.artifactId}
    ${project.version}
    ${project.packaging}
    mylegacy.jar
  

  
    
      
        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-install-plugin
        
          
            install
            
              install-file
            
          
        
      
    
  

You can now install files using:

mvn install

and this pom.xml. I have tested this with maven 3 and not 2.

For multiple files also see Maven POM file for installing multiple 3rd party commercial libraries