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

What works in our project is what Archimedes Trajano wrote, but we had in our .m2/settings.xml something like this:

 
  nexus
  *
  http://url_to_our_repository
 

and the * should be changed to central. So if his answer doesn't work for you, you should check your settings.xml