Maven dependencies for notes.jar java?

Question

What will be maven dependency for notes.jar java? I am using lotus notes and I have Notes.jar with me. I have already tried searching for dependency on MVN repository, on our local repository.

Answer 1

I assume from the context that you are talking about the Notes.jar file that is distributed as part of Lotus Notes.

As @Duffymo points out, you will not find this in the Maven central repositories¹. It is proprietary software that is made available to people who have obtained the relevant software license from IBM.

One solution is to use mvn install:install-file to put a copy of the JAR (with appropriate ids) into your local repository. There may be others; see

• Maven: best way of linking custom external JAR to my project?

... but beware of publishing the JAR file any more broadly than your Lotus Notes license agreement permits. (Hint: read it!)

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^{1 - If anyone put the Notes.jar file into a public repository, that would be license violation, placing them, the repository owners and anyone who downloads the file ... and their respective organizations ... at risk of being sued.}

Answer 2

I know this is a old question, but I needed to go back to this and I wrote a blog about it on a site that is longer running.

Adding Notes.jar (Domino) to Maven Repository Posted on May 26, 2019 by Slobodan Posted in XPagesBeast

To build JavaAgents, or XPages applications with better quality and less Domino dependencies. I will need to build the business logic outside Domino where it can be reused with non Domino apps.

Maven loads all dependencies into your ~.m2

Navigate to where you have Notes.jar with your terminal.

Windows

C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Notes\jvm\lib\ext>mvn install:install-file -Dfile=notes.jar -DgroupId=com.ibm.domino -DartifactId=lotus
.domino -Dversion=10.0.1 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.4:install-file (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Installing C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Notes\jvm\lib\ext\notes.jar to C:\Users\home-dir\.m2\repository\com\ibm\domino\lotus.do
mino\10.0.1\lotus.domino-10.0.1.jar
[INFO] Installing c:\temp\mvninstall1256224580517013755.pom to C:\Users\home-dir\.m2\repository\com\ibm\domino\lotus.domino\10.0.1\l
otus.domino-10.0.1.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.679 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2019-05-25T23:15:51-05:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/309M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Check your home directory

C:\Users\home-dir\.m2\repository\com\ibm\domino\lotus.domino\10.0.1>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 22DE-547E

Directory of C:\Users\home-dir\.m2\repository\com\ibm\domino\lotus.domino\10.0.1

05/25/2019 11:15 PM <DIR> .
05/25/2019 11:15 PM <DIR> ..
11/29/2018 02:06 AM 2,049,406 lotus.domino-10.0.1.jar
05/25/2019 11:15 PM 471 lotus.domino-10.0.1.pom
05/25/2019 11:15 PM 189 _remote.repositories
3 File(s) 2,050,066 bytes
2 Dir(s) 63,635,619,840 bytes free

C:\Users\home-dir\.m2\repository\com\ibm\domino\lotus.domino\10.0.1

Now with Maven’s Pom.xml I can do this (exclude the Notes.jar from being packaged because I’ll use the XPages runtime.):

<dependencies>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>com.ibm.domino</groupId>
      <artifactId>lotus.domino</artifactId>
      <version>10.0.1</version>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion> <!-- declare the exclusion here -->
         <groupId>com.ibm.domino</groupId>
         <artifactId>lotus.domino</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>