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 alluded to some python code in a comment to the answer from @alex lehmann's , so am posting it here.

def AddJars(jarList):
  s1 = ''
  for elem in jarList:
   s1+= """
     
        local.dummy
        %s
        0.0.1
        system
        ${project.basedir}/manual_jars/%s
     \n"""%(elem, elem)
  return s1