How to manage Maven third party jars

How to manage Maven third party jars

When you find yourself the need to load third party jars into Maven repository, there are few steps you normally do to test it out. You first install them locally into $HOME/.m2/repository, and then create your project pom that list those dependency. When things look good, then you deploy into your own hosted repository. The following scripts will help you perform these tasks.

Tip

If you have lot’s of jars under a group, it’s more conveninent to create an extra pom that list these dependency and install/deploy it into the repository as well. And then your project would only need to include one dependency with <type>pom</type>.

file: bin/mvn-install.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Install local jar files into Maven repository. The artifact name would be same
# as the filename minus the extension.
# :Author: Zemian Deng
# :date: 2013T00:00:00-05:00
#
# Usage:
#   # Print as maven dependency used in pom file
#   mvn-install.sh mygroup 1.0.0 lib/*.jar
#
#   # Install jar files into local maven repo
#   RUN_TYPE=install mvn-install.sh mygroup 1.0.0 lib/*.jar
#
#   # Deploy jar files into remote maven repo
#   export REPO_URL=http://localhost/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty
#   RUN_TYPE=deploy mvn-install.sh mygroup 1.0.0 lib/*.jar
#

# Capture command arguments and options
GROUP=$1
shift
VERSION=$1
shift
FILES="$@"
if [[ "$GROUP" == "" || "$VERSION" == "" || "$FILES" == "" ]]; then
 printf "ERROR: invalid arguments: GROUP VERSION FILES...\n"
 exit 1
fi

RUN_TYPE=${RUN_TYPE:="print"} # values: print|install|deploy
REPO_ID=${REPO_ID:="nexus-server"} # Id defined in user's settings.xml for authentication
REPO_URL=${REPO_URL:="http://localhost/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty"}

# For each file, perform action based on run type.
for FILE in $FILES; do
 ARTIFACT=`basename $FILE '.jar'`
 if [[ "$RUN_TYPE" == "deploy" ]]; then
  printf "Deploying file=$FILE as artifact=$ARTIFACT to repo=$REPO_URL\n"
  mvn deploy:deploy-file \
   -DrepositoryId=$REPO_ID -Durl=$REPO_URL \
   -DgroupId=$GROUP -DartifactId=$ARTIFACT -Dversion=$VERSION -Dpackaging=jar \
   -Dfile=$FILE
 elif [[ "$RUN_TYPE" == "install" ]]; then
  printf "Installing file=$FILE as artifact=$ARTIFACT\n"
  mvn install:install-file \
   -DgroupId=$GROUP -DartifactId=$ARTIFACT -Dversion=$VERSION -Dpackaging=jar \
   -Dfile=$FILE
 elif [[ "$RUN_TYPE" == "print" ]]; then
  printf "        <dependency>\n"
  printf "            <groupId>$GROUP</groupId>\n"
  printf "            <artifactId>$ARTIFACT</artifactId>\n"
  printf "            <version>$VERSION</version>\n"
  printf "        </dependency>\n"
 fi
done

Last updated 2013-06-18 19:14:37 EDT