Question

I do not want to install a few jars into a Maven repository (both local/remote). In particular I have a few jar files located in

c:\work\projects\myapp\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\lib\test.jar

c:\work\projects\myapp\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\lib\test2.jar

How to include them into my project when open/edit with NetBeans?

Answer 1

Have you considered adding those two JARs as system dependencies? e.g.,

<project>
  ...
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>sun.jdk</groupId>
      <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
      <version>1.5.0</version>
      <scope>system</scope>
      <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  ...
</project>

Just a word of note, this is NOT recommended and should be used very sparingly, if ever.