Maven: add a dependency to a jar by relative path

Question

I have a proprietary jar that I want to add to my pom as a dependency.

But I don\'t want to add it to a repository. The reason is that I want my usual maven commands

Answer 1

Using the system scope. ${basedir} is the directory of your pom.

    ..
    ..
    system
    ${basedir}/lib/dependency.jar

However it is advisable that you install your jar in the repository, and not commit it to the SCM - after all that's what maven tries to eliminate.