Overview

Usage with Projects with Untrackable JARs

		
Say you are converting a free form project (no Ant or any build script) to a Maven managed build.

It likely has undocumented and untrackable JAR dependencies that are stored in source control with the application code.

Use this style of dependency tags to access the JARs not in Maven Central and only in source control.

        
            org.company.untrackable
            somecore
            0.0
            system
            C:\home\group\versioning\team-foundation-server\department\radio\heart\WebContent\WEB-INF\lib\somecore.jar
        
        
        
            org.company.untrackable
            another-service
            0.0
            system
            /WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/another-service.jar
        
		
The above configuration is all well and good for compiling with the non-Maven Central JARs.   But to package the WAR with the 'system' scoped dependencies 
 the build tag needs the following added to the maven-dependency-plugin section:	
		
		
			
				
					org.apache.maven.plugins
					maven-dependency-plugin
					2.6
											
						
							install
							
								copy-dependencies
							
							
								/-/WEB-INF/lib

							
						
				
		
            

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