Task X: Manually Installing A Dependency

If your project requires a dependency that isn't available in a public Maven Repository then you will need to install it yourself. If you're the sole developer on the project you can get away with installing it locally. If you're working with a team of developers it might make more sense to set up a Maven Repository you can all access as to avoid inconsistency in what you each install.

Wether you are installing the dependency locally or to a shared repository you're going to need to provide 5 pieces of information. Fortunately 4 of these are concepts we covered earlier and the fifth is just the artifact itself.

• groupId:
• artifactId:
• version:
• packaging:
• file:

Install a Dependency Locally

prompt> mvn install:install-file -Dfile=outsider.jar - DgroupId=com.badexample -DartifactId=outsider -Dversion=1 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true

Deploy a Dependency to your own Maven Repository

prompt> mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=hello -Dversion=1.0.0 -DgeneratePom=true -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=hello-1.0.0.jar -Durl=???