Question

What would be the mechanism to deploy rar artifacts if they are not present in the repository. (e.g. I would like to deploy jackrabbit to my j2ee application, but it is not available as part of the maven repositories. Should I have to store the binary locally in SVN and use the antrun plugin to copy it?

Answer 1

A more specific answer to your question however is that Jackrabbit is available in the central repository:

http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/jackrabbit/jackrabbit-jca/2.0.0/

You can include it with:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
  <artifactId>jackrabbit-jca</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.0</version>
  <type>rar</type>
</dependency>