How to install MWS locally into Spring Boot project managed by Maven?

Question

I am trying to plug MWS libraries into my small Spring Boot application. I tried to find solution into this post. So far, no ideas out of there.

Is there are any way I can plugin 3rd party into my pom.xml file and make it easily installable into other developers machines? I tried this solution and also this guide.

I put MWS Java client files under src/dist and tried to install as mvn install:install-file -Dfile="/<my-path>/dist/MWSClientJavaRuntime-1.0.jar" -DgroupId=amazon -DartifactId=mws-client -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar and got the response:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building test-api 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.5.2:install-file (default-cli) @ hiccasoft-api ---
[INFO] pom.xml not found in MWSClientJavaRuntime-1.0.jar
[INFO] Installing /home/test/<part-of-my-path>/dist/MWSClientJavaRuntime-1.0.jar to /home/test/.m2/repository/amazon/mws-client/1.0/mws-client-1.0.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.661 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2019-02-20T19:33:26+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/300M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

What should I do with this? How to work with "installed" locally 3rd library and how to distribute it between other developers?

If you use `mvn install` the jar goes into your M2 folder, and every dev must follow the same step. Instead, you can use `mvn deploy` to put that jar to your company repo (eg Nexus?), and edit your `pom.xml` to use the "released" jar. See eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1912867/upload-jar-to-respository — Daniele, Feb 20 '19 at 20:08
@Daniele Is it any way to force it to go into project directory (instead of `.m2`) and write script, so each developer will be able to run and use `jar`s locally? — Dmytro Chasovskyi, Feb 20 '19 at 20:52
Uhm, if you really need to place the jar in a project folder, you can specify that the dependency is local using the (very discouraged) scope `system` and specifying a `systemPath` , like in the question of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10935135/maven-and-adding-jars-to-system-scope — Daniele, Feb 20 '19 at 21:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '20 at 14:53

Step 1: Configure the maven-install-plugin with the goal install-file in your pom.xml

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>install-external-non-maven-jar-MWS-Client-into-local-maven-repo</id>
            <phase>clean</phase>
            <configuration>
                <repositoryLayout>default</repositoryLayout>
                <groupId>com.amazonservices.mws</groupId>
                <artifactId>mws-client</artifactId>
                <version>1.0</version>
                <file>${project.basedir}/lib/MWSClientJavaRuntime-1.0.jar</file>
                <packaging>jar</packaging>
                <generatePom>true</generatePom>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
                <goal>install-file</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Make sure to edit the file path based on your actual file path (recommended is to place these external non-maven jars inside some folder, let's say lib, and place this lib folder inside your project so as to use project-specific relative path and avoid adding system specific absolute path.

Step 2: Once you have configured the maven-install-plugin as shown above in your pom.xml file, you have to use these jars in your pom.xml as usual:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.amazonservices.mws</groupId>
        <artifactId>mws-client</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </dependency>

Note that the maven-install-plugin only copies your external jars to your local .m2 maven repository. That's it. It doesn't automatically include these jars as maven dependencies to your project.

It's a minor point, but sometimes easy to miss.

This way, all the developers will get these dependencies on their machines as well without doing anything.

How to install MWS locally into Spring Boot project managed by Maven?

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