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

If you want a quick and dirty solution, you can do the following (though I do not recommend this for anything except test projects, maven will complain in length that this is not proper).

Add a dependency entry for each jar file you need, preferably with a perl script or something similar and copy/paste that into your pom file.

#! /usr/bin/perl

foreach my $n (@ARGV) {

    $n=~s@.*/@@;

    print "
    local.dummy
    $n
    0.0.1
    system
    \${project.basedir}/lib/$n

";