I have maven eclipse plugin and I want to use a jar file in my project that is not supported in maven so I found out I have to do something like this :
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=c:\kaptcha-2.3.jar -DgroupId=com.google.code
-DartifactId=kaptcha -Dversion=2.3 -Dpackaging=jar
So I have to install maven to issue that command but won’t that cause redundancy with maven plugin ?
It is no problem if you have both maven and eclipse maven plugin installed. I only use eclipse maven plugin for its pom.xml file editor. I do all other operations about maven through the command line.
Besides, the plugin (m2eclipse) I used, sometimes give strange dependency errors although everything is fine. Because when I run a “mvn install” for the project, it is built successfully. So, I think using maven itself is more reliable.