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 recommend creating a "third party" repository in a Maven repository server such as Nexus or Artifactory, and uploading the jar to there. Even though that means putting the jar into Maven, at least with a repository server it is available to anyone who will be building your application.