Maven 3 does not update snapshot dependency from local repository

Question

I am trying to use external library inside my maven project. Since I want the project to build out of the box on any machine, I don\'t want to use mvn install solut

Answer 1

Maven will never read the jar present inside any library folder. You must first understand how maven works. The only place where maven looks for jar is the localRepository (.m2), if absent it searches the other repository, mentioned in your POM.xml