Can I add jars to maven 2 build classpath without installing them?

Question

Maven2 is driving me crazy during the experimentation / quick and dirty mock-up phase of development.

I have a pom.xml file that defines the dependenc

Answer 1

For throw away code only

set scope == system and just make up a groupId, artifactId, and version

    org.swinglabs
    swingx
    0.9.2
    system
    ${project.basedir}/lib/swingx-0.9.3.jar

Note: system dependencies are not copied into resulted jar/war
(see How to include system dependencies in war built using maven)