how do i add a jar file externally as a maven dependency in eclipse?

[linda russel]

i am not getting selenium-server2.17.0 as a listed item in eclipse when i try to add from Maven --> Add Dependency

so i want to add it externally

[Peter Johnson]

The selenium-server JARs appear to be in Maven Central at:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-server/

Just enter the proper coordinate and it should download.

I have noticed that the search function in Eclipse doesn't always find everything, the indexing capabilities of m2e are not that good. But if you know the coordinates, then you can always enter them manually.

[linda russel]

i have a jar file named selenium-server-2.17.0 . how do i add it manually in the pom.xml file?

i do not know how to name in the groups!!!


<dependency>
<groupId>??</groupId>
<artifactId>??</artifactId>
<version>??</version>
</dependency>

[James Boswell]

Linda

You can use the install plugin to manually upload a jar into your local repository.

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=<path-to-file> -DgroupId=<group-id> \
-DartifactId=<artifact-id> -Dversion=<version> -Dpackaging=<packaging>

However, if the jar you require is on Maven Central, you should be able to find its coordinates from here: http://search.maven.org/

[James Boswell]

Available from Maven Central:

<dependency> <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId> <artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId> <version>2.17.0</version> </dependency>

Be aware, there is a newer version available - 2.18.0

[linda russel]

Thanks for the reply James.

When i add the above jar file by editing the POM.xml file. i get a error in the pom.xml file. i do not understand why??

[linda russel]

<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId>
<version>2.17.0</version>
</dependency>


i added the above jar file for my Webdriver API's i used. But i do not understand why i am getting the error in pom.xml file

[linda russel]

i got the error as soon as i edited the pom.xml file as above

[James Boswell]

Linda

People won't be able to help you unless you give specific error details. What is the error you receive?

[linda russel]

Its not a specific error. Eclipse shows that pom.xml file has error saying that there is a spelling mistake in few words in the pom.xml even though there is none.

[James Boswell]

Linda

What happens when you run a build using Maven?

[linda russel]

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-server-standalone</artifactId>
        <version>2.17.0</version>
    </dependency>

i am getting a error with the following jar file now.

how can i correct it?

the previous jar file was taken properly.

[linda russel]

 Failure to find org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-server-standalone:jar:2.17.0 in http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException

following is the error trace when i do maven install from eclipse. its not able to find that jar!!!
what is the workaround ??

[James Boswell]

Linda

Re-run the install build, thus time with the 'Force Updates' option checked (or -U on the command line if you prefer)

[linda russel]

where is the Force updates option in eclipse?

[Peter Johnson]

Don't run that from Eclipse. Go to the command line and run "mvn -U package" within your project's directory.

[linda russel]

Thanks Peter :-)

[linda russel]

C:\Users\prasanna\workspace\autotest>mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building autotest 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) @ autotest ---
[INFO] Deleting C:\Users\prasanna\workspace\autotest\target
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ autotest -
--
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ autotest ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:testResources (default-testResources) @ au
totest ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\Users\prasanna\workspace\autotest\
src\test\resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ autot
est ---
[INFO] Compiling 15 source files to C:\Users\prasanna\workspace\autotest\target\
test-classes
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\com\google\guava\g
uava\10.0.1\guava-10.0.1.jar; invalid LOC header (bad signature)
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\net\sourceforge\ht
mlunit\htmlunit\2.9\htmlunit-2.9.jar; invalid LOC header (bad signature)
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\sel
enium\selenium-firefox-driver\2.17.0\selenium-firefox-driver-2.17.0.jar; invalid
 LOC header (bad signature)
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\sel
enium\selenium-ie-driver\2.17.0\selenium-ie-driver-2.17.0.jar; invalid LOC heade
r (bad signature)
[INFO] 4 errors
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.924s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Feb 20 13:56:19 IST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.
3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) on project autotest: Compilation failure:
Compilation failure:
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\com\google\guava\g
uava\10.0.1\guava-10.0.1.jar; invalid LOC header (bad signature)
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\net\sourceforge\ht
mlunit\htmlunit\2.9\htmlunit-2.9.jar; invalid LOC header (bad signature)
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\sel
enium\selenium-firefox-driver\2.17.0\selenium-firefox-driver-2.17.0.jar; invalid
 LOC header (bad signature)
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\sel
enium\selenium-ie-driver\2.17.0\selenium-ie-driver-2.17.0.jar; invalid LOC heade
r (bad signature)
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
ch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea
d the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureExc

whenever i clean and try to rebuild i get the above errors?

can somebody help me why i am getting this errors?

[Peter Johnson]

Try opening the JAR file using the jar utility. Here is an example:

jar -tf C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\com\google\guava\guava\10.0.1\guava-10.0.1.jar

If that is not successful, then the JARs are corrupt. Delete the entire directory containing the artifacts. For example, for the guava JAR, delete C:\Users\prasanna\.m2\repository\com\google\guava\.

[linda russel]

import  ch.randelshofer.screenrecorder.ScreenRecorder 

how can i put the dependency for ScreenRecorder.jar in maven?

[Peter Johnson]

I used Jarfinder (http://www.jarfinder.com/index.php/java) to look up that class. Jarfinder knows about almost all open source classes. It could not find this class. Unless the owner of the JAR file that contains this class provides instructions on how to access the JAR via a Maven dependency, you will either have to import the JAR into your local Maven repository or deploy the JAR file to Nexus (or some other remote repository server). In my environment, we always do the latter. Oh, look in the JAR and see if there is a META-INF/maven directory; if there is, and you go to the subdirectories you will see the pom.xml which will give you the details about the artifact.

When we do this, we generally use the common package name for all classes in the JAR as the groupId (in your case, this might be "ch.randelshofer.screenrecorder"), and the JAR file name (minus the extension) as the artifactId. We also look at the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file to see if it contains any version info. If it doesn't, we use the timestamp on the class files as the artifact's version.

[linda russel]

Thank you so much for this important information.. :-)

[linda russel]

I added a Settings.xml file and changed the control to local repository after adding the ScreenRecorder.jar . It worked. Thanks a lot for all your help