Install File Using POM instead of commandline

Question

I\'m currently using:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile={path/to/my/legacy.jar} -DgroupId=horrible -DartifactId=legacy.jar -Dversion=1.2.3 -Dpackaging=jar


        

Answer 1

Okay, answering my own question :P. You can do this by defining properties, I originally assumed the groupId etc were auto exported as properties but they are not.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.whatever</groupId>
  <artifactId>Stuff</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.3</version>

  <description>
  Description of why this horrible jar exists.
  </description>

  <properties> 
    <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
    <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
    <version>${project.version}</version>
    <packaging>${project.packaging}</packaging>
    <file>mylegacy.jar</file>
  </properties>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>install</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>install-file</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

</project>

You can now install files using:

mvn install

and this pom.xml. I have tested this with maven 3 and not 2.

For multiple files also see Maven POM file for installing multiple 3rd party commercial libraries