Maven POM file for installing multiple 3rd party commercial libraries

Question

I have a bunch of projects which are dependant on a set of commercial 3rd party libraries. We currently don\'t have a company repository so I have to install the libraries in my

Answer 1

Recently discovered a new solution to this. Basically you can create a local repository within the project which can be checked in with the rest of the source code. Blogged about it here: http://www.geekality.net/?p=2376.

The gist is to deploy dependencies to a folder in your project.

mvn deploy:deploy-file
    -Durl=file:///dev/project/repo/
    -Dfile=somelib-1.0.jar
    -DgroupId=com.example
    -DartifactId=somelib
    -Dpackaging=jar
    -Dversion=1.0

And then simply let Maven know about it and use dependency declarations as normal through your pom.xml.

    
        project.local
        project
        file:${project.basedir}/repo
    



    com.example
    somelib
    1.0

Not extremely Maven'y, but it works and moving the dependencies to a company repository later should be quite simple.