Make it a (test) dependency of your project, use dependency:copy to
copy the jar to a location of choice (see
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/examples/copying-artifacts.html)
before the test phase is executed.

Kalle

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:04 AM, TorstenKarusseit
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a unit test which uses a external jar.
> This jar is executed in a separate vm by the unit test.
> In eclipse I've to manually build and export the jar into a defined
> location.
> Then the unit test with hard-coding this location starts a separate vm and
> performs it's tests.
> Now, how to do that with maven ?
> My guesses:
> 1. include dependency to the generating pom of that external jar to the
> project pom
> 2. include testResource (to testResources) to buid, but how ?
>    It has to download the jar from local repo into the defined location and
>    if not there build it and install it to the location.
> Any help ?
>
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