Use WAR as dependency in Maven - maven

Question

I was given a project by a client that has a bunch of dependencies that are in a WAR file that they provided. I have added the dependency to the pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oragle.oipa</groupId>
<artifactId>PASJava</artifactId>
<version>10.2.0.25</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
But clearly, as I physically have the files, they cannot be installed by Maven automatically. What can I do to get Maven to recognize their location and set them up for me?

Answer 1

If the war is not associated to a pom.xml, you should "mavenize" it to be able to use is as a Maven dependency in another Maven project.
1) You can look the install-file goal of the Maven install plugin.
It allow to generate and deploy the pom in your local repository.
https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html
With your example, you could generate and install the war artifact in this way:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=locationOfYourWarFile -DgroupId=com.oragle.oipa
-DartifactId=PASJava -Dversion=10.2.0.25 -Dpackaging=war
2) You can also look at the deploy-file goal of the Maven deploy plugin.
It allows to generate and deploy the pom in a remote repository. It may be useful if other users need the war as a Maven dependency.
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/usage.html
Here is an example from documentation :
mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=file://C:\m2-repo \
-DrepositoryId=some.id \
-Dfile=your-artifact-1.0.jar \
[-DpomFile=your-pom.xml] \
[-DgroupId=org.some.group] \
[-DartifactId=your-artifact] \
[-Dversion=1.0] \
[-Dpackaging=jar] \
[-Dclassifier=test] \
[-DgeneratePom=true] \
[-DgeneratePom.description="My Project Description"] \
[-DrepositoryLayout=legacy] \
[-DuniqueVersion=false]