As we do in Ant build, we can specify the Jars that we need to copy in build.xml in case of Ant(We just need to specify the folder name from which we need to pick the jar files). Is there any facility of same kind is available in Maven as well.
If yes, Then do we need to add the dependency tags equal to the number of jars in folder or one dependency tag is sufficient. I hope you get my point.
I think your missing the point of dependency management. All the JAR’s required by your project should be defined as dependencies in your POM. If you have any custom JAR files (not available in a public repo) then you will want to install those in a local repository, and access them that way.