Hi Damon, First thing. If the 3rd party jars are not available in repositories, there is no other solution than installing them in your repository manually and generate/create a POM for them. Nothing to do about that. You don't install a 3rd party jar by creating a new maven project for them and trying to build it, but by executing the following command for each of the jars you want to install:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=<path-to-file> -DgroupId=<group-id> \ -DartifactId=<artifact-id> -Dversion=<version> -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true Next. The term "dependency management" has nothing to do with installing dependencies in your repository. It is used by a parent project to define default dependency details at a top-level. This makes defining dependencies for its child projects (modules) easier and helps to keep their dependency versions in line. Finally. If you don't like to define a lot of recurring dependencies, there is a nifty trick you could do: - Create a project with packaging set to "pom". Add all recurring dependencies as dependencies of this project. - Install this project by executing "mvn install". Because the type of the project is "pom", the pom file will be installed in your local repository. - In other projects, depend on the previously installed project, and don't forget to specify its type (pom). Because of Maven2's transitive dependency resolution, the dependencies of this project will be injected into the projects that depend on it. Cheers Jo On 5/30/07, Damon Rand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I've spent all afternoon working on this but am stuck.. I am building several wars that all depend on the same set of 3rd party jar files. I could write a batch file to install the jars to my local repos and then copy and paste the list of dependencies into each war. But what I really want is to be able to depend on a single mydependencies/pom.xml project instead. I tried getting maven to install my jars using the systemPath variable like this but it didn't work. <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> <parent> <groupId>com.xyz</groupId> <artifactId>abc-parent</artifactId> <version> 3.5.1-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <artifactId>mydependencies</artifactId> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>mydependencies</name> <build></build> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.xyz</groupId> <artifactId>abc</artifactId> <version>3.5.1</version> <scope>system</scope> <systemPath>${basedir}/lib/abc.jar</systemPath> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> I've read all about dependencyManagement and installing 3rd party jars but its just not clicking.. Regards, Damon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
