Refer: 20120512 Using Third-party jars with Maven
To use third party jars in a maven project, the steps are as follows:
1) Upload the jar into a repository (either your local repository if it's just for you, or into the shared Nexus repository if you want other people to access the jar as well)
2) Add a section in your pom.xml to tell maven that your application depends on this jar.
Here are the commands to implement those steps:
To upload a jar in your local repository (your local repository is on your vm in ~/.m2/repository):
mvn install:install-file
-Dfile= -DgroupId=com.hal.thirdparty
-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
To upload a jar into the shared Nexus Repository:
Option A: Command line
mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=file://C:m2-repo
-DrepositoryId=some.id
-Dfile=your-artifact-1.0.jar
[-DpomFile=your-pom.xml]
[-DgroupId=org.some.group]
[-DartifactId=your-artifact]
[-Dversion=1.0]
[-Dpackaging=jar]
[-Dclassifier=test]
[-DgeneratePom=true]
[-DgeneratePom.description="My Project Description"]
[-DrepositoryLayout=legacy]
[-DuniqueVersion=false]
See here for the detail of the options: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/usage.html
Option B: Using the web interface from Nexus at http://halsvn01:8081/nexus/index.html#view-repositories;thirdparty~uploadPanel
See the attached screenshot.
In both options, you will need Nexus admin credentials to upload artifacts (jars in maven terms) into the shared repository.
2) In your pom.xml, inside the section, add:
com.hal.thirdparty
your-artifact
your-artifact-version
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Guillaume Radde
Senior Consultant, Red Hat Consulting
guillaume.radde@redhat.com
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