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Table of Contents

Requirements………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3

Creating a maven project in Eclipse………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4

Converting Java Project to maven Project………………………………………………………………………………………………8

Adding an external jar library in maven project…………………………………………………………………………………….11

Adding an external sources library in maven project……………………………………………………………………………12

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Requirements:

Eclipse IDE

Java SDK

Apache Maven

M2E

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Creating maven project:

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Maven Project Structure:

Java project to maven project:

Create a new Java Project in Eclipse or open an existing project

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Adding an external jar library into maven:

Open pom.xml from the project and add the following content at the end of the project before </project>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>test</groupId>

<artifactId>test1</artifactId>

<version>1</version>

<scope>system</scope>

<systemPath><path to the .jar file> </systemPath>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

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Adding external sources in maven project:

In pom.xml file change <sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>

To

<sourceDirectory>absolute path to your source directory </sourceDirectory>