Installing your own jar into Local Repository

• Update your maven setting to point the localRepository to where you want to install the jar
  
  1. Go to <MAVEN_HOME>\conf directory
  2. Open settings.xml and change <localRepositorygt; tag to the path where you want to install the jar file
• In command prompt, type:
  

  mvn install:install-file -Dfile=your-artifact-1.0.jar \
                           [-DpomFile=your-pom.xml] \
                           [-Dsources=src.jar] \
                           [-Djavadoc=apidocs.jar] \
                           [-DgroupId=org.some.group] \
                           [-DartifactId=your-artifact] \
                           [-Dversion=1.0] \
                           [-Dpackaging=jar] \
                           [-Dclassifier=sources] \
                           [-DgeneratePom=true] \
                           [-DcreateChecksum=true]
  
  Where: <path-to-file>  the path to the file to load
     <group-id>      the group that the file should be registered under
     <artifact-id>   the artifact name for the file
     <version>       the version of the file
     <packaging>     the packaging of the file e.g. jar

  
  Sample:
  mvn install:install-file -Dfile=C:\bel\docs\lib\jxl-2.6.3.jar -DgroupId=jexcelapi -DartifactId=jxl -Dversion=2.6.3 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom -DcreateChecksum=true


• In your repository, you will find the new jar installed
• To use the jar, add it in your pom.xml like:
  

  <dependency>
   <groupId>jexcelapi</groupId>
   <artifactId>jxl</artifactId>
   <version>2.6.3</version>
  </dependency>