how to add external jar to maven webapp project

Question

I have a Spring roo project (basically a maven project). I want to add dropbox sdk to the project, problem is it\'s not in maven. I added the following files

Answer 1

I finally found a neat solution, which is a lot easier to implement. You add an in-project repository inside the java project and link to it in the pom.

You add an in-project repository in maven like this:

    in-project
        In Project Repo
        file://${project.basedir}/libs

Then create a folder structure in the root folder of your project that looks something like this

/groupId/artifactId/version/artifactId-version.jar

and add the dependency as you would normally do.

This approach has the least amount of code and work required, and if that library ever gets add into a maven repository you can always remove your in-project repository.

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