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

I've previously written about a pattern for doing this.

It is very similar to the solution proposed by Pascal, though it moves all such dependencies into a dedicated repository module so that you don't have to repeat it everywhere the dependency is used if it is a multi-module build.