External Jar not being referenced in the pom.xml

[Ankit V Agrawal]

Hello Ranchers,

I have added 2 external jar files along with hibernate files in my pom.xml.

Here is my pom.xml

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<parent>
		<groupId>com.abc.risk.bls</groupId>
		<artifactId>bls-parent-pom</artifactId>
		<version>9.8</version>
	</parent>
	<groupId>com.abc.risk.bls.utils</groupId>
	<artifactId>bls-inquiry-tracking</artifactId>
	<packaging>jar</packaging>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>${project.artifactId}</name>
	<properties>
		<tagFolder>utils/${project.artifactId}</tagFolder>
	</properties>
	<description>The current version of this project is ${project.version}. Coverted prroject from ant.</description>
	<distributionManagement>
		<site>
			<id>alalpprg001</id>
			<url>${bls.distributionManagement.site.url}</url>
		</site>
	</distributionManagement>
	<scm>
		<connection>
			scm:svn:http://idm-svn.choicepoint.net/svn/bls/trunk/${tagFolder}
		</connection>
		<developerConnection>
			scm:svn:http://idm-svn.choicepoint.net/svn/bls/trunk/${tagFolder}
		</developerConnection>
		<url>
			http://idm-svn.choicepoint.net/svn/bls/trunk/${tagFolder}
		</url>
	</scm>
	<repositories>
		<repository>
			<!-- for hibernate -->
			<id>jboss</id>
			<url>http://repository.jboss.org/maven2</url>
		</repository>
	</repositories>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
			<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
			<version>3.3.2.GA</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
			<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
			<version>3.3.2.GA</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.supercsv</groupId>
			<artifactId>SuperCSV</artifactId>
			<version>1.52</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>net.sourceforge</groupId>
			<artifactId>jtds</artifactId>
			<version>1.2.5</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	<build>
		<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src</sourceDirectory>
	</build>
</project>

After this I have also installed the jtds and super csv external jars by running following commands

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.supercsv.perfs -DartifactId=SuperCSV -Dversion=1.52 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=localLocationToSuperCSV.zipFile
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.supercsv.perfs -DartifactId=jtds -Dversion=1.52 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=localLocationToJTDS.zipFile

Now I'm getting the following error when I'm running mvn install

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure

C:\projects\bls-inquiry-tracking\src\com\abc\inquirytracking\util\InquiryTrackingManager.java:[7,22] package org.supercsv.io does not exist

C:\projects\bls-inquiry-tracking\src\com\abc\inquirytracking\util\InquiryTrackingManager.java:[8,22] package org.supercsv.io does not exist

C:\projects\bls-inquiry-tracking\src\com\abc\inquirytracking\util\InquiryTrackingManager.java:[9,25] package org.supercsv.prefs does not exist

C:\projects\bls-inquiry-tracking\src\com\abc\inquirytracking\util\InquiryTrackingManager.java:[101,3] cannot find symbol
symbol  : class ICsvMapWriter
location: class com.abc.inquirytracking.util.InquiryTrackingManager

C:\projects\bls-inquiry-tracking\src\com\abc\inquirytracking\util\InquiryTrackingManager.java:[101,30] cannot find symbol
symbol  : class CsvMapWriter
location: class com.abc.inquirytracking.util.InquiryTrackingManager

C:\projects\bls-inquiry-tracking\src\com\abc\inquirytracking\util\InquiryTrackingManager.java:[101,104] cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable CsvPreference
location: class com.abc.inquirytracking.util.InquiryTrackingManager


[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jan 31 11:12:58 EST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 19M/35M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm only into my second day with Maven so I'm also learning and researching about this meanwhile.

- Ank

[Peter Johnson]

The groupIds in the install:install-file command don't match the groupIds used in the dependency entries in your POM. Ditto for the version on the jdts artifact.

[Ankit V Agrawal]

Thanks peter, yes that was a mistake. But I now wonder how it got successful in the first place

Anyways I have corrected what you have mentioned and have these 2 commands running now

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.supercsv -DartifactId=SuperCSV -Dversion=1.52 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=mySuperCSVLocation
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=net.sourceforge -DartifactId=jtds -Dversion=1.2.5 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=mySuperCSVLocation

But still the problem persists

[Peter Johnson]

Post the full mvn build output.

[Ankit V Agrawal]

We have a sonatype nexus maven repository, these two jars were not added there, after adding them in that repository the problem got resolved. Thanks you.

[Peter Johnson]

Yes, installing such third-party artifacts in a central repository, such as Nexus, is always preferred to installing them in a local repository.