Is it best to Mavenize your project jar files or put them in WEB-INF/lib?

Question

I\'ve been doing this for all of the jar files that my Spring MVC project needs:

call mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=vegetables -DartifactId=potatoes -Dversi         


        

Answer 1

I've been doing the same that you do with the command line, but by configuring maven-install-plugin in my POM (please read the note at the end):

     
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-install-plugin
            
                
                    install-vegetables
                    initialize
                    
                        install-file
                    
                    
                        ${project.basedir}/lib/vegetables-1.0.jar
                        vegetables
                        potatoes
                        1.0
                        jar
                    
                
                
                    install-minerals
                    initialize
                    
                        install-file
                    
                    
                        ${project.basedir}/lib/minerals-1.0.jar
                        minerals
                        rocks
                        1.0
                        jar
                    
                
            
        

It is much less efficient, because files get installed over and over, but it is much less annoying than making it manually. Anyway, I think you should give it a try.