Hi,
This has probably been answered before, but I haven't been able to find the answer and I'm hoping someone knows. I'm writing several apps that talk to a Microsoft SQL database, so I'm using the Hibernate dependency. Since Microsoft doesn't make the sqljdbc4 jar available on Maven, I've downloaded it, and I'm trying to make it an unmanaged dependency in its own standalone project so that I can simply reference it in other projects' pom files without having to deploy the jar to each one individually. I've followed the instructions for deploying an unmanaged dependency. As I am the only developer at my company (at this time), I do not have a separate Maven server setup. I was hoping to simply deploy the dependency and then run 'maven install' so that it copies everything needed into my .m2 folder. This is my directory setup: (This is the project directory for the sqljdbc4 unmanaged dependency) C:\dev\Github-repos\addons\sqljdbc4 +- pom.xml +-src +-repo I followed the instructions to use mvn deploy on the local sqljdbc4.jar file. I am using an artifactId of sqljdbc4, version 4.0, groupId of com.microsoft.sqlserver. After deployment, the repo directory does appear to be correctly populated: C:\dev\Github-repos\addons\sqljdbc4 +- pom.xml +-src +-repo +-com +-microsoft +-sqlserver +-sqljdbc4 +-maven-metadata +-4.0 +-sqljdbc4-4.0.jar +-sqljdbc4-4.0.pom Next, following the instructions, I go back into the pom.xml file and add the repository tag, so my pom.xml for this now looks like: <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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId> <artifactId>sqljdbc4</artifactId> <version>4.0</version> <repositories> <!--other repositories if any--> <repository> <id>project.local</id> <name>project</name> <url>file:${project.basedir}/repo</url> </repository> </repositories> </project> Now, here is the problem. Since I want to use this as a dependency in other projects, I am trying to run 'maven install' so that it will push everything into my .m2 directory. The maven build is a success. However, the resulting sqljdbc4.jar file in the target directory and up in the m2 directory is only 2kb (whereas the original jar file is 571kb, none of the content made it in). As a result, projects that use this as a dependency build, but then throw a ClassNotFoundException at runtime, because the classes aren't there. I am building a separate project that uses this as a dependency: C:\dev\Github-repos\applications\myapp The pom.xml for this project uses the dependency correctly: <dependency> <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId> <artifactId>sqljdbc4</artifactId> <version>4.0</version> </dependency> I'm even using the maven assembly plugin to ensure a jar is built with all dependencies packaged in: <plugin> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <descriptorRefs> <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef> </descriptorRefs> <archive> <manifest> <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> <mainClass>productfeeds.main.ProductFeedDriver</mainClass> </manifest> </archive> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>single</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure it's something really simple I've overlooked. If I don't make this a standalone dependency, and simply use 'mvn install:install-file -Dfile=sqljdbc4.jar -DgroupId=com.microsoft.sqlserver -DartifactId=sqljdbc4 -Dversion=4.0 -Dpackaging=jar ', then everything works fine. Thanks, Matt