Reputation: 6904
I've encountered some errors when I tried to install an artifact manually with Maven 2. I wanted to install a jar from a local directory with the command
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jta-1.0.1B.jar
But Maven gave a build error which reads like:
Invalid task '.01B.jar': you must
specify a valid lifecycle phase, or a
goal in the format plugin:goal or
pluginGroupId:pluginArtifactId:pluginVersion:goal
Is there a mistake with my command?
Upvotes: 100
Views: 181809
Reputation:
I had to add packaging, so:
mvn install:install-file \
-DgroupId=javax.transaction \
-DartifactId=jta \
-Dversion=1.0.1B \
-Dfile=jta-1.0.1B.jar \
-DgeneratePom=true \
-Dpackaging=jar
Upvotes: 16
Reputation: 7355
All the posted answers rightfully discuss this from a strictly maven perspective. My issues was in doing this install for maven using Netbeans as my primary IDE. I found the below article helpful.
Credit to the following netbeans forum article: http://forums.netbeans.org/topic22907.html
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 81667
You need to indicate the groupId, the artifactId and the version for your artifact:
mvn install:install-file \
-DgroupId=javax.transaction \
-DartifactId=jta \
-Dpackaging=jar \
-Dversion=1.0.1B \
-Dfile=jta-1.0.1B.jar \
-DgeneratePom=true
Upvotes: 156
Reputation: 81
Answer is to escape the dash!
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg83991.html
Upvotes: 8
Reputation: 42983
If you ever get similar errors when using Windows PowerShell, you should try Windows' simple command-line. I didn't find out what caused this, but PowerShell seems to interpret some of Maven's parameters.
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 570615
According to maven's Guide to installing 3rd party JARs, the command is:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=<path-to-file> -DgroupId=<group-id> \
-DartifactId=<artifact-id> -Dversion=<version> -Dpackaging=<packaging>
You need indeed the packaging option. This answers the original question.
Now, in your context, you are fighting with a jar provided by Sun. You should read the Coping with Sun JARs page too. There, you'll learn how to help maven to provide you better information about Sun jars location and how to add Java.net Maven 2 repository which contains jta-1.0.1B.jar
. Add this in your settings.xml
(not portable) orpom.xml
(portable):
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
<name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>
<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
</repositories>
Upvotes: 40