Deploying multiple 3rd party JARs to global (internal) Maven nexus

Question

I have a load of 3rd party JAR files (around 40 different JARs from various SDKs I'm using) sitting in a folder on my hard drive. I want to declare those JARs as dependencies in my future maven projects.

I cannot obtain those JARs from the worldwide global maven repository as you could with e.g. Log4J, JUnit, Velocity etc, since they are not available there.

How do I get these JAR files from my local folder into my company global (but internal) maven repository (Nexus)? What would be the necessary steps? The best solution would be a programmatical one, if that's possible at all.

I'm confused that I could not find any solution to my problem using Google, because I imagine this to be a very widespread problem. So maybe I'm thinking in a wrong direction.

Thank you very much!

Solution

You can install the libraries to your local repository with the maven-install-plugin (install-file goal - see example).

You can deploy the libraries to your remote repository (Nexus) with the maven-deploy-plugin (deploy-file goal - see example).

You can also use the Nexus web application to upload the libraries to nexus (see Nexus Book - Uploading Artifacts).