How to deploy maven artifacts if they are not present in the central repository

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>

Answer 2

One would typically use an enterprise repository (like Nexus) for this. If this is not an option, have a look at this previous answer for a way to store dependencies in your version control system.