Maven system dependency.

Adding a depedency from the system is not recommended. The sole purpose of having maven is, if you give the developer the src directory and the pom.xml file, with the help of maven he can build and deploy the entire app.Having a system dependency will take away this advantage as you will have to provide the dependency along with the source or the developer will have to download it make changes to his pom.xml so that it takes the appropriate system path, etc.

System dependency should only be used if the dependency that you are providing cannot be found in any online repository or you are using some external functionality that you built yourself.

In one of my posts, I have explained how to add the system dependency.

Thanks,
Shoeb

Adding a new repository in the maven pom.xml

At times, the repository used in the pom.xml may not have the latest version of jar you are looking for. In such case, you will need to add a repository which has the required version of the particulaar dependency. You can do it in the following way:

Add the following lines between the <repositories> </repositories> tags:
<repository>
<id>org.spring.maven.snapshot</id>
<name>Spring Maven Snapshot Repository</name>
<url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/</url>
<releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</repository>

Change the url and id according to your requirement. The id can be anything but should be a unique one.

Thanks,
Shoeb

Adding external Dependency jar in A Maven project -java via Eclipse/Springsource

Hi,

I was facing a lot of problems when adding an external dependency like jar files in a Maven project.

Here are the steps that I have figured out:

1. Download the required jar.

2. Open the pom.xml (in eclipse or SpringSource or any text editor)

3. Add the following entry:

Group ID : Any suitable group ID

Artifact ID : Any Suitable ID

Version : Apropriate

type : Jar

Scope : System

Path : The path where the jar is saved along with the jar name. Eg /home/ubuntu/Downloads/abc.jar

4. Save the pom file.

5. Right click the POM file -> run as -> Maven generate sources

6. Right click the POM file -> run as -> Maven install

7. Done!

Happy coding!

Shoeb