You need to create a minimal pom for these jars for maven to be able to use them. If you use install:install-file or better deploy:deploy-file, it can create the minimal pom for you.
-----Original Message----- From: Claudio Di Vita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 4:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Add third parties libraries as dependencies I'm persuading my Team Leader to use Maven as build tool, but I have to demonstrate him that with Maven we'll handle our project dependencies effortless. I've obtained good results, but I have some problems with some jar libraries provided, through a quite complex installation process, by a software. So I've tried to create an "empty" Maven artifact which has these libraries as system dependencies (yes, the dependency scope is system). After I installed the artifact, I inserted it as a compile dependency for another project called, for example, ABC. But when I try to resolve projects dependencies I obtain the following message: [WARNING] POM for ''<artifact-info>" is invalid. It will be ignored for artifact resolution. Reason: Failed to validate POM for project <artifact-info> And the resolution fails. Instead if I put these libraries as system dependencies of project ABC, everything works. I think, because it's not written in Maven documentation, that system dependencies are not transitive....I'm right ?? But my question is: I can use these external libraries as dependencies without put them in a local repository ?? Thank you for help, Claudio Di Vita -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Add-third-parties-libraries-as-dependencies-tf4964 483s177.html#a14220690 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
