Just make a project with type pom and specify these dependencies. Then, depend on this project in your other projects, and it will bring in those dependencies transitively.
If you're certain about those versions, you can lock them down with <version>[1.2.3]</version>. Wayne On 2/26/08, Brown, Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, newb question here... > > Somewhere long ago, an internal dev project started depending on > foo-corp/lib/**/* of a 3rd-party framework, which ends up being a random > collection of 50 jars or so. What's the Maven best practice for > representing a "big bag o' jars" as a single dependency? > > I know it would be ideal to resolve our dependency graph with greater > granularity, but until someone has copious free time to do that, we'd > need a simple interim solution to move us forward on the Maven track. > > Just to make it clear, the repository dir would look something like: > /foo-corp/bigbagofjars/5.7/ > > And it would contain a random selection of goodies such as: > apache-commons-codec_1.3.jar > apache-commons-discovery_1.1.jar > apache-commons-logging_1.1.jar > axis-jaxrpc_1.1.jar > axis-saaj_1.1.jar > axis-wsdl4j_1.1.jar > axis_1.1.jar > bsh_1.3.0.jar > jdom_b8.jar > junit_3.8.1.jar > ldapjdk_5.2.jar > log4j_1.2.8.jar > oracle_9.2.0.5.jar > xalan_2.6.0.jar > xerces-xml-apis_2.6.2.jar > xerces_2.6.2.jar > xpp3_min-1.1.3.4.I.jar > xstream-1.1.3.jar > > If I'm missing some obvious best practice, please feel free to point it > out, this is just the best I've been able to come up with so far. > > Thanks in advance... > > ----------------------------------------- > ==================================================== > This message contains PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL > information that is intended only for use by the > named recipient. If you are not the named recipient, > any disclosure, dissemination, or action based on > the contents of this message is prohibited. In such > case please notify us and destroy and delete all > copies of this transmission. Thank you. > ==================================================== > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
