Hello, It is really not a good idea to fight maven. If you need something in the classpath for compile, specify it as dependency in the Pom. Otherwise your build cannot be repeated and the project is hard to set up.
All tomcat libraries needed to compile should be in the maven repository. If you have custom artifacts, the normal method is to upload them to a (own) repository Server and reference them there. There is a way to specify a local („system“) location for dependencies, but I would not recommend that way. (And in all cases not possible to use a wildcard/directory search) Gruss Bernd -- http://bernd.eckenfels.net ________________________________ Von: /dev /local/ca <devloca...@gmail.com> Gesendet: Friday, October 16, 2020 10:24:50 AM An: users@maven.apache.org <users@maven.apache.org> Betreff: Using Apache Maven, what is the simplest way to include <tomcat-home/webapps/<web-context>/lib/ directory in the classpath in the pom.xml What is the simplest way to specify a directory (and all jars underneath this directory) to be in the maven classpath when it compiles .java classes and builds a .jar? The directory is not in my git repo or any directory under my IDE project files. I have a requirement to create a pom.xml that will reference the current project, and external jars in a /lib/ directory. ------------------------------ The requirement is to put together a pom.xml for a maven build that depends on jars in: $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/<web-context>/WEB-INF/lib/ I want to reference that location directly in the maven pom.xml file and not copy the /lib/*.jar files to another directory under my git repo. The .../WEB-INF/lib/ contains .jar files that contains classes that my project imports. The jar that is then built will be put into: $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/<web-context>/WEB-INF/lib/ to extend the product as per the vendor instructions. ------------------------------ If anyone has had this exact issue, and has a reference pom.xml that can be pasted here, it would be extremely helpful and get me going quickly. ------------------------------ Irrespective of the deployment part where I copy the jar to /webapps/<web-context>/WEB-INF/lib/, I would be happy to just get files under /src/com/.../.java/ compiled and put into a jar in the /target/ directory
