Create local repository for jar - maven

Question

I have main parent POM file which I use to declare all dependencies. I have 3 submaven projects. This is the file structure:
C:\NetBeansProjects\project\pom.xml
C:\NetBeansProjects\project\Core\System_Commons\pom.xml
C:\NetBeansProjects\project\Core\Tracking_Service\pom.xml
I need to use into my project weblogic client - wlfullclient.jar. I create local maven repository:
C:\NetBeansProjects\project\lib\com\weblogic\wlfullclient\10.3.6\wlfullclient-10.3.6.jar
C:\NetBeansProjects\project\lib\com\weblogic\wlfullclient\10.3.6\wlfullclient-10.3.6.pom
I added local repository:
<repository>
<id>lib</id>
<name>In Project Repo</name>
<url>file://${basedir}/lib</url>
</repository>
Jar dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>wlfullclient</artifactId>
<version>10.3.6</version>
</dependency>
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=C:\wlfullclient-10.3.6.jar -DgroupId=com.weblogic -DartifactId=wlfullclient -Dversion=10.3.6 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
But I get this error:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project System_Commons: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.project:System_Commons:bundle:1.0: Could not find artifact weblogic:wlfullclient:jar:10 at specified path C:\NetBeansProjects\project\Core\System_Commons\lib\wlfullclien
t-10.3.6.jar -> [Help 1]
The correct path should be here C:\NetBeansProjects\project\lib\com\weblogic\wlfullclient\10.3.6\wlfullclient-10.3.6.jar
Can you give me some idea how I can fix this?

Answer 1

there is not need to create a new repository (do you have any specific requirement?), you already have one, your local repository. The easiest thing to do is, to install this specific jar to your local repository. Usually that resides in the ~/.m2 folder (Mac/Unix) or C:\Documents and Settings{your-username}.m2 for windows. See here.
So what you need to do is apply the following command :
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=wlfullclient-10.3.6.jar
-DpomFile=wlfullclient-10.3.6.pom
-DgroupId=com.weblogic
-DartifactId=wlfullclient
-Dversion=10.3.6
-Dpackaging=jar
In case though you want to have a separate 'local' lib repository you can use the following param on the example above :
-DlocalRepositoryPath=path-to-specific-local-repo
See references here.
You can now reference your jar from your pom and and check of course your local report that the jar is indeed installed and the naming is correct.
Hope that helps.