Best way to create a maven artifact from existing jar

Question

I\'m mavenizing some projects.

These projects all depend on a number of libraries, most of them are available in the maven repo. For the other libraries, I\'d like to cr

Answer 1

If you're not using a remote repository (which is a common situation for personal development), simply install these artifacts in your local repository using the install:install-file mojo:

mvn install:install-file 
  -Dfile= 
  -DgroupId= 
  -DartifactId= 
  -Dversion= 
  -Dpackaging= 
  -DgeneratePom=true

Where:   the path to the file to load
             the group that the file should be registered under
          the artifact name for the file
              the version of the file
            the packaging of the file e.g. jar

But obviously, this will make your build non portable (this might not be an issue though). To not sacrifice the portability, you'll have to make the artifacts available in a remote repository. In a corporate context, the common way to deal with that is to install an enterprise repository (and in that case, to deploy the artifacts indeed).

Update: Once your artifact is installed in your local repository, simply declare a element in your pom like for any other dependency, e.g.:

  aGroupId
  aArtifactId
  1.0.12a
  jar