Classpath jars not picked up in mavenised projects

[Ashwin Sridhar]

Hi All,

I am placing a jar on the classpath of my Mavenised Project, but it seems to be not picking the jar.

In case of mavenised projects, can't I place jars on classpath explicitly.

Regards,
Ashwin

[Peter Johnson]

Exactly what do you mean by "placing a jar on the classpath of my Mavenised Project"? With Maven, you don't place JARs anywhere; instead, you add dependencies within your pom.xml.

[Ashwin Sridhar]

Thanks for your reply Peter.

I work on Eclipse and I placed the jar in the build path. But I found out that I need to specify the jar as dependency in pom.xml.

But I have one question, what would be the group Id, artifact Id etc as I created this jar in my local system.

Regards,
Ashwin

[Peter Johnson]

Since you create the JAR, that information (also known as the artifact's coordinates) is up to you. Did you create it using Maven? If so, you have already the coordinates. If you did not use Maven, it might be best if you did, then you can build the jar using "mvn install" and then reference it in your project. (If you insist on not converting it to Maven, you can still use "mvn install:install-file" to load the jar into the local repository; you would given the coordinates as part of that command)