Java 8, Spring Boot 1.5.8 and Gradle 4.6 here.
I'm building a Spring Boot app and use the built-in Gradle tasks to produce a self-contained, executable "fat" jar for it. Another team has generated a dependency JAR that I need to incorporate into my project.
In a few months we will have a binary repository set up that they will publish new versions of their library to, and that I will resolve/pull from. But for right now, I'm stuck with the somewhat draconian distribution model where they email me a version and I need to figure out how to get it working with Gradle to get it on the classpath.
So...
My project lives on my machine at /home/myuser/workspace/my-spring-boot-app. They have emailed me the first version of their library, say, some-lib-0.1.0.jar and I have downloaded it to, say, /home/myuser/some-lib-0.1.0.jar).
Another complicating (and important!) factor is that this JAR has no pom.xml file with it (yet). They simply included, in their email, a list of all its dependencies which I have already included in my app's build.gradle file. So I don't think this JAR's dependencies will be a problem, but wanted you all to be aware that there is no pom.xml for it, so not sure if that means I need to write my own, etc...
I'm imagining that the simplest solution here is to install/import the library into my local Maven/Gradle repository (wherever mavenLocal() resolves from)? And that once its imported/installed there, I can just add mavenLocal() to my list of repositories { ... } and add it as a compile dependency, right?
If so, how do I accomplish the first part (getting it into mavenLocal() without a POM)? And if not, what is the simplest solution here? Thanks in advance!
