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Asked: 2026-05-22T12:52:37+00:00

I guess I haven’t really had to do this much before because I am

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I guess I haven’t really had to do this much before because I am running into a strange issue. I am trying to generate a JAR from an existing Java project and then and putting it into a Spring Maven project. I’m sure I’m including it correctly, I have done this many times before with 3rd party JARs that I get (even though its a Maven project I have included some obscure JARs in it and put on buildpath, etc), with my JAR within Eclipse it is showing up fine as if its included, I have a test class that is importing a class from the JAR, instantiating it, etc and its not showing any errors (imports are fine in the IDE, etc), however when I go to do a Maven install I get:

[ERROR] /media/src/main/java/org/jadefalcon/automation/DataSetup/test.java:[11,15] package org.test does not exist
[ERROR] /media/src/main/java/org/jadefalcon/automation/DataSetup/test.java:[21,2] cannot find symbol

I have tried doing a Maven clean but still the same problem, the JAR class I am testing with is this: (was trying a more complex one but then tried this to troubleshoot the issue)

package org.test;

public class something {

    public String main () {
        return "it is definitely working fine";
    }

}

Here is the JAR I generated (with sources visible):
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BzB_xvrbRpbYODQyMjEzOWEtOTdjNS00YjM3LTlkZGUtNjY5NmIwN2RiNTRj&hl=en

I would appreciate any advice as I am rather perplexed and frustrated by this. Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since this caused me quite a bit of grief, I figure I should post the solution I found. Apparently you aren’t supposed to just include a regular lib JAR in a maven project (although I swear I have done it before and it worked), I found this way to include a local JAR that isn’t form a repository from this post:

    Can I add jars to maven 2 build classpath without installing them?

    I did this and its doing the maven install properly (where version and artifactID are just made up value)

            <dependency>
    <groupId>org.test</groupId>
    <artifactId>test</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <scope>system</scope>
    <systemPath>${basedir}/lib/testjar.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
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