I've run into this as well. If you depend on an artifact that in turn has system scoped dependencies, the build fails during validation (mvn -X gives you more info). Either the intention is to keep system scoped dependencies defined in the pom of the project you're building (and keep them out of artifacts intended to be shared as dependencies), or it's a bug (?).
I got around this by deploying the third party jar into our internal repository and scoped it as 'provided'. I created a third party repository just for this reason. -----Original Message----- From: Claudio Di Vita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 4:13 PM To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Add third parties libraries as dependencies I'm persuading my Team Leader to use Maven as build tool, but I have to demonstrate him that with Maven we'll handle our project dependencies effortless. I've obtained good results, but I have some problems with some jar libraries provided, through a quite complex installation process, by a software. So I've tried to create an "empty" Maven artifact which has these libraries as system dependencies (yes, the dependency scope is system). After I installed the artifact, I inserted it as a compile dependency for another project called, for example, ABC. But when I try to resolve projects dependencies I obtain the following message: [WARNING] POM for ''<artifact-info>" is invalid. It will be ignored for artifact resolution. Reason: Failed to validate POM for project <artifact-info> And the resolution fails. Instead if I put these libraries as system dependencies of project ABC, everything works. I think, because it's not written in Maven documentation, that system dependencies are not transitive....I'm right ?? But my question is: I can use these external libraries as dependencies without put them in a local repository ?? Thank you for help, Claudio Di Vita -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Add-third-parties-libraries-as-dependencies-tf4964 483s177.html#a14220690 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
