Eclipse: Maven Module missing artifact - .jar not created

Question

I have a server project consisting of a few Maven Modules. I was now about to create another one that is supposed to contain objects that the server and any (Java) client shares. It appears that due to the Maven dependency it expects me to deliver a .jar file.

In my pom.xml I'm getting:

Missing artifact com.server:shared:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

How can I tell Eclipse to either create a .jar file and copy it where it is needed or that it should at least rely on the source code?

My project structure:

server (parent)
- server-data-model (maven-archetype-quickstart)
- server-web        (maven-archetype-webapp)
- server-mobile     (maven-archetype-webapp)
- server-shared     (maven-archetype-quickstart)

server-web and server-mobile are just providing a REST API and what I want to do is to create a jar file from server-shared for the server projects and another client project to share. It contains basically simple POJO objects (return values from the server a client is supposedto receive).

Answer 1

From stackoverflow answer:

Install the JAR into your local Maven repository as follows:

mvn install:install-file
-Dfile=<path-to-file>
-DgroupId=<group-id>
-DartifactId=<artifact-id>
-Dversion=<version>
-Dpackaging=<packaging>
-DgeneratePom=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

UPDATE

Using maven it is very simple.

Just add the dependency in server-web and server-mobile like below.

<dependency>
    <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
    <artifactId>server-shared</artifactId>
    <version>${project.version}</version>
 </dependency>