Adding a 3rd Party JAR to Maven Repo

Question

I just needed to use a 3rd party JAR in my project and deployed the JAR in my local maven repo. I followed these steps while doing this:

->Runned the belowed statement:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=c:\DEVEL\gsa-japi-src-1.3.jar -DgroupId=net.sf.gsaapi 
-DartifactId=gsaapi -Dversion=1.3 -Dpackaging=jar

->I saw "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" message, checked local repo files and it seemed the deployment was succesfull.

->After installed and deployed, i just added following statements in pom.xml file.

  <dependency>
      <groupId>net.sf.gsaapi</groupId>
      <artifactId>gsaapi</artifactId>
      <version>1.3</version>
 </dependency>

But I still can not reach the library's methods. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Correct dependency is:

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.sf.gsaapi</groupId>
  <artifactId>gsa-japi-src</artifactId>
  <version>1.3</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

gsa-japi-src-1.3.jar contains only source files (.java) and apidocs. You need a jar with .class files

Answer 3

You have installed JAR use net.sf.gsaapi:gsaapi artifact identifier but in dependency you are using com.google.code:kaptcha . So, you should use the same artifact identifier in dependencies.