Provide a way to create "virtual artifacts" out of plain .jar file.
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Key: MNG-4599
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4599
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Ondrej Zizka
During the time I have been using Maven, I have come across numerous cases when
I desperately needed to turn a simple .jar file into a dependency. Currently,
this involves installing it properly to the repository first, and only then it
can be used.
I suggest to introduce some construct which would take a list of .jar files and
turn them into dependencies in the sense they would be added to the classpaths,
could be used for WAR overlays, etc. Of course, they would not have any
transitional dependencies.
<dependencyManagement>
<jarPaths>
<jarPath>../../releases/50GAAS/jboss-as/common/lib</jarPath>
</jarPaths>
...
</dependencyManagement>
This would greately improve Maven's openness to non-mavenized world, and
usability in cases when you really get a plain .jar/.war/.ear/... before every
build cycle.
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