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

I know your problem. Mavenizing jars is sometimes a pain (especially if they have further transitive dependencies, which also need to be defined in pom.xml).

Have you checked whether these libraries really never exist as maven deps? Have a look at the usual suspects:

• http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/
• http://repository.codehaus.org/
• http://download.java.net/maven/1/

Sometimes I like to use Nexus jar upload dialog to let create pom.xml files.