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

This is how we add or install a local jar

    
        org.example
        iamajar
        1.0
        system
        ${project.basedir}/lib/iamajar.jar
    

i gave some default groupId and artifactId because they are mandatory :)