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Ralph Goers commented on MNG-4599: ---------------------------------- I'm going to point you back to Brett's response. Instead of insisting on a solution, go to the mailing list with your problem and ask there for recommendations on how to resolve it. After you've expended a bit of effort with that and if no one proposes a workable solution then you should open a Jira describing the problem, some of the alternatives that were suggested and why they don't work and then propose something. As it stands, I really don't understand what the problem you are trying to solve is because all you have said so far is "I have come across numerous cases when I desperately needed to turn a simple .jar file into a dependency" without explanation as to why that is necessary or even what you were trying to do. > Provide a way to create "virtual artifacts" out of plain .jar file. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-4599 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4599 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Ondrej Zizka > Assignee: Brett Porter > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira