Have you considered/tried specifying the arbitrary jars as system scoped dependencies?
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Dependency_Scope On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 08:34 -0800, monkeyden wrote: > I own and have read the book. Perhaps "repo" is overstating what I'm trying > to do here. I'm really just trying to pull 2 arbitrary jars into my build. > The phrase "file system repo" just seemed to do what I wanted. Apparently, > it doesn't mean what I took it to mean. There is nothing in the book > describing how to do this, to my knowledge. > > > Anders Hammar wrote: > > > > I would also argue that you should read up on Maven and how it uses repos. > > It's much easier if you actually understand the core Maven stuff, than us > > telling you what to do. Less misunderstandings for one thing. > > http://www.sonatype.com/documentation/books/maven-defguide > > > > /Anders > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 00:23, Wendy Smoak <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM, monkeyden <monk...@monkeyden.com> wrote: > >> > >> > These are simply directories in my maven project. They are > >> > created manually and they each contain a jar file and a pom file. If > >> this > >> > isn't possible then what is a file system repository, if anything? Is > >> it > >> > just the local maven repo (in the .m2 folder)? > >> > >> A file system repo is a remote repo that happens to be on the file > >> system and uses a file:// url. It is not the same as your local repo. > >> > >> For anyone to help you figure out what's wrong, we'll need more > >> details. If you've manually created the repo, then there's a chance > >> you haven't done it right and that's why it's not working. What > >> exactly is the structure and contents under the 'lib' directory? > >> > >> -- > >> Wendy > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
