How to add local jar files to a Maven project?

Question

How do I add local jar files (not yet part of the Maven repository) directly in my project\'s library sources?

Answer 1

The really quick and dirty way is to point to a local file:

      sample  
       com.sample  
       1.0 
      system
      C:\DEV\myfunnylib\yourJar.jar

However this will only live on your machine (obviously), for sharing it usually makes sense to use a proper m2 archive (nexus/artifactory) or if you do not have any of these or don't want to set one up a local maven structured archive and configure a "repository" in your pom: local:

    
        my-local-repo
        file://C:/DEV//mymvnrepo
    

remote:

    
        my-remote-repo
        http://192.168.0.1/whatever/mavenserver/youwant/repo
    

for this a relative path is also possible using the basedir variable:

file:${basedir}