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

A strange solution I found:

using Eclipse

• create simple (non-maven) java project
• add a Main class
• add all the jars to the classpath
• export Runnable JAR (it's important, because no other way here to do it)
• select Extract required libraries into generated JAR
• decide the licence issues
• tadammm...install the generated jar to your m2repo
• add this single dependency to your other projects.

cheers, Balint