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

I found another way to do this, see here from a Heroku post

To summarize (sorry about some copy & paste)

• Create a repo directory under your root folder:

yourproject
+- pom.xml
+- src
+- repo

• Run this to install the jar to your local repo directory

mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=file:///path/to/yourproject/repo/ -Dfile=mylib-1.0.jar -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=mylib -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=1.0

• Add this your pom.xml:

    
    
        project.local
        project
        file:${project.basedir}/repo
    




    com.example
    mylib
    1.0