CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user3907559
user3907559

Reputation: 85

Showing jars in maven dependencies section without doing mvn install in cmd

I have added dependencies in pom.xml and immediately the corresponding jars started to show up in maven dependencies section of dynamic web project.

I just want to know that I have not done mvn install in cmd so how did they get saved in maven repository.

Another query I have, is that since jars are availble in maven dependencies folder of dynamic wep project, so my project runs successfully or not as depndencies are already satisfied without doing mvn install.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 152

Answers (1)

Hatley
Hatley

Reputation: 259

When you list a <dependency> in your project's POM, M2Eclipse (Eclipse's plugin in this case) will trigger Maven to resolve that declared dependency...meaning Maven will check your local repo first for that dependency, and if it's not found there it will pull it down from the next highest repo you have configured (possibly an agency-level repo, or Maven's default public repo on the web).

No mvn install is required, as the purpose of that would be to install your current project's packaged artifact into your local repo, rather than install any dependency.

Hope this helps to clarify why an install is not used to copy dependencies into your local repo.

Upvotes: 1

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