Hi,

If some library is not available on the public maven repository you can add it to the local maven repository.

The local maven repository lies on your system in .m2 directory.

The mvn install command will help you in installing libraries in your local repository.

For example to add following library:

<dependency>
  <groupId>hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>shards</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0B2</version>
</dependency>

You can issue the following command:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=c:\mylib\hibernate-shards-3.0.0.beta2.jar 
 -DgroupId=hibernate -DartifactId=shards -Dversion=3.0.0B2 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true

Where c:\mylib\hibernate-shards-3.0.0.beta2.jar is the location of your downloaded jar file.

Thanks