How to add a .jar to a maven project in netbeans?

[ricalc]

How to add a .jar to a maven project in netbeans 6.8?

I cannot find any way to do it.
I want to add this lib:
google-api-translate-java-0.82.jar

thanks in advance

[russpet]

I'm not sure if netbeans has a way to do this from the NB gui. I struggled with this too. I ran "mvn install... <more args>" from the command line.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/03/01/building-web-applications-with-maven-2.html

I believe I had to either recompile at the top project or stop/start netbeans to then recognize a jar had been added to the local repository manually.

[Dafe Simonek]

Well there is a way from NB gui I believe, try this:

1) In Maven project open "Add dependency" dialog
2) Make up some groupId, artifactId and version and fill them, OK.
3) Dependency will be added to the pom.xml and will appear under
"Libraries" node of maven project
4) Right-click Lib node and "manually install artifact", fill the path
to the jar
Jar should be installed to local Maven repo with coordinates entered in
step 2)

Dafe

russpet wrote:

[jdictionary]

Thanks Dafe, exactly what I was looking for. Works great. Just to add to your instructions, to get to the "Add dependency" dialog, right-click on the "Dependencies" folder in the Projects view. It is the first option (I am using Netbeans 7.1.1). Also, note that when you execute these steps, Netbeans will issue the following mvn command behind the scenes:

mvn -DartifactId={artifact id} -DgroupId={group id} -Dversion={version} -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile={path to jar} -DgeneratePom=false install:install- file