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Brett Porter closed MNG-4599.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
Assignee: Brett Porter
This request comes up from time to time, but was a deliberate design decision
in Maven 2.
You can refer to the following post for a way to achieve what you want, with
some caveats:
http://brettporter.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/a-maven-friendly-pattern-for-storing-dependencies-in-version-control/
However, even in an environment that doesn't use Maven for every project, you
will find a shared repository (in conjunction with the Maven Ant tasks, Ivy, or
other build tools) will be valuable for making these artifacts available.
> 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
> Assignee: Brett Porter
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> 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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