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Maven Shade Plugin causes duplicate jars on classpath when running integration tests

I have a project which includes the S3 dependency from AWS's Java v2 SDK and builds a shaded jar. I am hitting this problem when running my integration tests from the terminal. The problem is that the interceptors are added twice because the classpath contains two jars with the S3 jar: once in my shaded jar and once from the local .m2 repository. Unfortunately I don't have any control of the code that contains this issue so I need to find a workaround until the issue is fixed.
I have replicated the problem with the following pom and test class:
pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.stu</groupId>
<artifactId>duplicate-jars-classpath</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<aws.sdk.version>2.5.62</aws.sdk.version>
<junit.version>5.4.2</junit.version>
<maven.failsafe.plugin.version>2.22.0</maven.failsafe.plugin.version>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
<artifactId>bom</artifactId>
<version>${aws.sdk.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
<artifactId>s3</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>8</source>
<target>8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven.failsafe.plugin.version}</version>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>**/*Test.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>run-tests</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Test class - src/test/java/com/stu/S3DuplicateJarTest.java
package com.stu;
import java.util.Collections;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import software.amazon.awssdk.core.interceptor.ClasspathInterceptorChainFactory;
public class S3DuplicateJarTest {
#Test
void check_for_duplicate_jars() throws Exception {
System.out.println("********** AWS execution interceptors:");
Collections.list(
new ClasspathInterceptorChainFactory().getClass().getClassLoader()
.getResources("software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/execution.interceptors")
).forEach(System.out::println);
}
}
If I run the tests in my IDE then this is the output:
********** AWS execution interceptors:
jar:file:/Users/<name>/.m2/repository/software/amazon/awssdk/s3/2.5.48/s3-2.5.48.jar!/software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/execution.interceptors
From the terminal this is the output when running mvn clean verify:
[INFO] Running com.stu.S3DuplicateJarTest
********** AWS execution interceptors:
jar:file:/Users/<name>/Development/duplicate-jars-classpath/target/duplicate-jars-classpath-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/execution.interceptors
jar:file:/Users/<name>/.m2/repository/software/amazon/awssdk/s3/2.5.62/s3-2.5.62.jar!/software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/execution.interceptors
As you can see the terminal has found two resources matching the path.
Is there anything I can do to avoid this? Is there something wrong with my configuration?

It's due to your maven configuration, shade plugin packs all dependencies into a single jar file.
Your failsafe plugin runs tests using class path from both the project dependencies (.m2/...) and that single jar file, hence the duplicated resources.
This seems to be only happening when using failsafe in command line, though. And it's fairly easy to get around, you can simply tell failsafe to not load that dependency. (It'll be available in that single jar file anyway)
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven.failsafe.plugin.version}</version>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>**/*Test.java</include>
</includes>
<classpathDependencyExcludes>
<classpathDependencyExcludes>software.amazon.awssdk:s3</classpathDependencyExcludes>
</classpathDependencyExcludes>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>run-tests</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

karaf-assembly 4.0.5 - zip ard tar.gz files are not generated at the end of a successful maven build

I am an inexperienced Java and Maven developer, although I have got karaf-assembly builds to work a couple of years ago using the Karaf 3.0.1 release.
When attempting to generating a karaf-assemby 4.0.5 for a customised product build, the zip and tar.gz files are not created at the end of the maven build. The ../target/assembly directory is created each time the maven build is run and the completion status is always "BUILD SUCCESS".
I suspect this this is because the POM file has an error highlighted by the Eclipse IDE at the section for the karaf-maven-plugin directly on the line, which is as follows:
Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.karaf.tooling:karaf-maven-plugin:4.0.5:assembly (execution: default-assembly, phase: process-
resources)
I can resolve this error in the IDE on the line by removing the "extensions" line, but then I get a "Project build error: Unknown packaging: karaf-assembly" error on the "packaging" line.
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
<artifactId>karaf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
**<!-- <extensions>true</extensions> -->**
<configuration>
<startupFeatures></startupFeatures>
<bootFeatures>
<feature>standard</feature>
<feature>management</feature>
<feature>jms</feature>
</bootFeatures>
<installedFeatures>
</installedFeatures>
</configuration>
</plugin>
The POM file I am using is as follows:
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>my.custom</groupId>
<artifactId>my.distribution</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>karaf-assembly</packaging>
<!-- PIP Operations Aspect Assembly properties -->
<properties>
<maven-compiler-plugin-version>2.3.2</maven-compiler-plugin-version>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<assembly.directory>${project.build.directory}/assembly/karaf-4.0.5</assembly.directory>
<karaf.name>karaf</karaf.name>
<karaf.version>4.0.5</karaf.version>
<pip.name>Operations Aspect</pip.name>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.karaf.features</groupId>
<artifactId>framework</artifactId>
<version>4.0.5</version>
<type>kar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.karaf.features</groupId>
<artifactId>framework</artifactId>
<version>4.0.5</version>
<classifier>features</classifier>
<type>xml</type>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.karaf.features</groupId>
<artifactId>standard</artifactId>
<classifier>features</classifier>
<version>4.0.5</version>
<type>xml</type>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.karaf.features</groupId>
<artifactId>enterprise</artifactId>
<classifier>features</classifier>
<version>4.0.5</version>
<type>xml</type>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process-resources</id>
<goals>
<goal>resources</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
<artifactId>karaf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>4.0.5</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<startupFeatures></startupFeatures>
<bootFeatures>
<feature>standard</feature>
<feature>management</feature>
<feature>jms</feature>
</bootFeatures>
<installedFeatures>
</installedFeatures>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

You might be missing the execution settings:
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>assembly</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>package</id>
<goals>
<goal>archive</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>

AspectJ in Maven project, not working/weaving

I am trying get the AspectJ weaving working in a simple Maven project, and not sure where it is going wrong :
when I run the code using "mvn exec:java", I dont see expected output.
I am sure the code is working, because I tried the same in STS, where it works fine. I just wanted to get the AspectJ working in a Maven project.
Any hints to how to debug this kind of issues will be much appreciated.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.aop</groupId>
<artifactId>aop1</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>aop1</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.7.3</version> <!-- specify your version -->
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<outxml>true</outxml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.aop.aop1.App</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
Aspect file in same folder as code :
package com.aop.aop1;
public aspect aspect {
pointcut secureAccess()
: execution(* *.foo(..));
before() : secureAccess() {
System.out.println("BEHOLD the power of AOP !!!");
}
}
Java file :
package com.aop.aop1;
public class App
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
System.out.println( "Hello World!" );
foo();
}
public static void foo() {
System.out.println(" IN FOO.");
}
}

There are several problems with your configuration:
The aspect should be named Aspect with a capital "A" instead of aspect which is a reserved keyword.
The POM is missing a closing </project> tag.
The POM has a <pluginManagement> section, but no separate <plugins> section, i.e. you provide defaults for your plugins, but do not actually declare that you want to use them. So either you use a stand-alone <plugins> section without <pluginManagement> or you redeclare the plugins in an additional <plugins> section.
The aspectj-maven-plugin needs a <version>. You forgot to specify one.
The aspectj-maven-plugin also needs a <complianceLevel> configuration.
You use compile-time weaving, so you do not need the <outxml> setting. It is only needed for load-time weaving.
The aspectjrt dependency needs at least version 1.7.4 in order to be compatible with the version used in aspectj-maven-plugin 1.6 by default in order to compile your sources.
In addition to that, I recommend to use newer versions of Maven plugins and dependencies such as JUnit and exec-maven-plugin if you do not have any compelling reasons to use older ones. I also recommend to use the latest AspectJ version 1.8.2 and also specify to use that one internally in aspectj-maven-plugin.
Working pom.xml with minimal changes:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.aop</groupId>
<artifactId>aop1</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>aop1</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.7.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<configuration>
<complianceLevel>1.7</complianceLevel>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.aop.aop1.App</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Working pom.xml with recommended changes:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.aop</groupId>
<artifactId>aop1</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>AOP Sample</name>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<aspectj.version>1.8.2</aspectj.version>
<java.source-target.version>1.7</java.source-target.version>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>${java.source-target.version}</source>
<target>${java.source-target.version}</target>
<!-- IMPORTANT -->
<useIncrementalCompilation>false</useIncrementalCompilation>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<configuration>
<showWeaveInfo>true</showWeaveInfo>
<source>${java.source-target.version}</source>
<target>${java.source-target.version}</target>
<Xlint>ignore</Xlint>
<complianceLevel>${java.source-target.version}</complianceLevel>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
<verbose>true</verbose>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<!-- IMPORTANT -->
<phase>process-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>test-compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>
<version>${aspectj.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.aop.aop1.App</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.dstovall</groupId>
<artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<onejarVersion>0.96</onejarVersion>
<mainClass>com.aop.aop1.App</mainClass>
<attachToBuild>true</attachToBuild>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>one-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>OneJAR googlecode.com</id>
<url>http://onejar-maven-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/mavenrepo</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>${aspectj.version}</version>
<!--<scope>runtime</scope>-->
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
BTW, the onejar-maven-plugin is just a goodie which I like to use in order to build a stand-alone uber JAR (a.k.a. fat JAR) containing everything you need to run the software, i.e. your classes/aspects plus the AspectJ runtime. You can just run the program with
java -jar aop1-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.one-jar.jar
The output should be similar to mvn exec:java just without the Maven stuff:
Hello World!
BEHOLD the power of AOP !!!
IN FOO.

Install Jar Dependency to Local Repository as Part of Maven Build Process

I have a third-party jar that is a dependency of my project. Because of business constraints, I do not have access to an enterprise or company repository, which would definitely be my preference for this issue. But regardless, this third-party jar is not available publicly, and so it is included in the web project under src\main\resources.
This is a Maven project, and so I list this third-party jar as a compile time dependency, and include in my pom a build plugin that will install the third-party jar to my local repository as part of the build process; I tell Maven to perform this goal during the validate phase of the build lifecycle, which to my knowledge would be before any other Maven phase.
However, when I run a clean install and have my local repository cleared out, the build fails due to the third-party jar not being resolvable locally or in the Maven central repository. As far as I know, I have set up the pom correctly and I should be seeing Maven attempt to install the third-party jar locally before it begins dependency resolution.
The issue is that if the dependency is listed before the jar has ever been installed locally, the build will fail due to being unable to resolve that dependency. If I remove the third-party jar declaration and run the build, after dependency resolution occurs (which is the very first thing it does after the clean), but before any other phase, it will locally install the jar and things are fine. But to my knowledge, it should run the validate phase before it collects and resolves dependencies, and so the jar should be locally installed before it's resolved by Maven. Any ideas or thoughts?
My pom:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>project</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Web Services</name>
<description>This project will handle communication.</description>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- This plugin installs the Evip jar from the project's resource folder to the local
repository for normal Maven consumption -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install-evip-jar</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<executable>mvn</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>install:install-file</argument>
<argument>-Dfile=${basedir}\src\main\resources\EVIPSoapServer.jar</argument>
<argument>-DgroupId=com.company</argument>
<argument>-DartifactId=EVIPSoapServer</argument>
<argument>-Dversion=1.0.0</argument>
<argument>-Dpackaging=jar</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<!-- EXCLUDE EVIPSOAPSERVER JAR FROM CLASSES DIRECTORY -->
<packagingExcludes>
${basedir}\src\main\resources\EVIPSoapServer.jar
</packagingExcludes>
<webResources>
<!-- INCLUDE SOURCE FILES WITH WAR -->
<resource>
<directory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF/classes</targetPath>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- mvn clean install tomcat:run-war to deploy Look for "Running war
on http://xxx" and "Setting the server's publish address to be /yyy" in console
output; WSDL browser address will be concatenation of the two: http://xxx/yyy?wsdl -->
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-tomcat</id>
<goals>
<goal>run-war</goal>
</goals>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<port>${test.server.port}</port>
<path>/webservice</path>
<fork>true</fork>
<useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>true</useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<projectNameTemplate>[artifactId]-[version]</projectNameTemplate>
<wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
<wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
<wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings
only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
<pluginExecutions>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>
org.codehaus.mojo
</groupId>
<artifactId>
exec-maven-plugin
</artifactId>
<versionRange>
[1.2.1,)
</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<ignore></ignore>
</action>
</pluginExecution>
</pluginExecutions>
</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
<dependencies>
<!-- COMPILE DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>EVIPSoapServer</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>3.0.7.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- PROVIDED/TEST DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

The solution from http://randomizedsort.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/configuring-maven-to-use-local-library.html is based on having a file-based, project-scoped maven repository. Thus, the library is under your source code versioning. Install is one-time manual process, rather than a something specified in the pom.xml file
Three steps:
Create a folder in your project where you will keep the repo. Say lib.
Use Maven to install your jar to the lib directory.
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=path_to_mylib.jar ^
-DgroupId=com.mylib ^
-DartifactId=mylib ^
-Dversion=1.0 ^
-Dpackaging=jar ^
-DlocalRepositoryPath=path_to_my_project/lib
3.Update your pom.xml
<repositories>
<repository>
<!-- DO NOT set id to "local" because it is reserved by Maven -->
<id>lib</id>
<url>file://${project.basedir}/lib</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mylib</groupId>
<artifactId>mylib</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Saw this question while looking for a solution to a similar problem. I know it's old, but wanted to share my solution. I ended up solving my problem by using the maven-install-plugin directly:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>whatevs</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>${oracle.version}</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<file>${basedir}/dev-setup/lib/ojdbc6.jar</file>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Works perfectly.

I suggest you modeling the external dependency as a separate project (think of it as a wrapper). Your current project may then be dependent on your own project that as part of its build can download the external JAR and package it into its own distributable.

Alrighty, arguing and preference aside, I did go with Sander's recommendation; it was the only one that really worked without custom Mojos, etc. I have a parent Maven project with a packaging of type pom and all it does is install the third-party jar (which could be any number of jars or dependencies) to my local repository. The parent pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>project-evip</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>EvipSoapServerJar</name>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<modules>
<module>webservices</module>
</modules>
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- This plugin installs the Evip jar from the project's lib to the local
repository for normal Maven consumption -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install-evip-jar</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<executable>mvn</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>install:install-file</argument>
<argument>-Dfile=${basedir}\src\main\resources\EVIPSoapServer.jar</argument>
<argument>-DgroupId=com.company</argument>
<argument>-DartifactId=EVIPSoapServer</argument>
<argument>-Dversion=1.0.0</argument>
<argument>-Dpackaging=jar</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings
only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
<pluginExecutions>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>
org.codehaus.mojo
</groupId>
<artifactId>
exec-maven-plugin
</artifactId>
<versionRange>
[1.2.1,)
</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<ignore />
</action>
</pluginExecution>
</pluginExecutions>
</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
Then, I created a Maven module under the parent Maven project and used the org.apache.cxf.archetype:cxf-jaxws-javafirst:2.7.7 archetype. I simply list the third-party jar as a compile-time dependency, and it's resolved and added to the resulting war. The child module's pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<artifactId>project-evip</artifactId>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>webservices</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Web Services</name>
<description>This project will handle communication.</description>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<webResources>
<!-- INCLUDE SOURCE FILES WITH WAR -->
<resource>
<directory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF/classes</targetPath>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- mvn clean install tomcat:run-war to deploy Look for "Running war
on http://xxx" and "Setting the server's publish address to be /yyy" in console
output; WSDL browser address will be concatenation of the two: http://xxx/yyy?wsdl -->
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-tomcat</id>
<goals>
<goal>run-war</goal>
</goals>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<port>${test.server.port}</port>
<path>/webservice</path>
<fork>true</fork>
<useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>true</useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<projectNameTemplate>[artifactId]-[version]</projectNameTemplate>
<wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
<wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
<wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
<dependencies>
<!-- COMPILE DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>EVIPSoapServer</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>3.0.7.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- PROVIDED/TEST DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
I appreciate all the help, thank you.

Corresponding to gregm's answer I'm using now:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<file>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar</file>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
This installs the JAR of the project itself to local repository.
Result:
--- maven-jar-plugin:2.3.2:jar (default-jar) # SportyLib ---
Building jar: ...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
--- maven-install-plugin:2.5.2:install (default-install) # SportyLib ---
Installing ...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar to .../.m2/repository/.../1.0-SNAPSHOT/...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Installing .../pom.xml to .../.m2/repository/.../1.0-SNAPSHOT/...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.pom

Maven : Unable to get Property Value from Proprties file

I'm a newbee in apache Maven. When i try to read the values from the properties file, it's not picking the value. I already seen all the previously asked questions in SO. But no luck with that. This is my property file.
nameofmayil=mayilsamy
This is the pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.mycompany.mayil</groupId>
<artifactId>mayil-app</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>mayil-app</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<scm>
<connection>scm:svn:http://127.0.0.1/svn/my-project</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:svn:https://127.0.0.1/svn/my-project</developerConnection>
<tag>HEAD</tag>
<url>http://127.0.0.1/websvn/my-project</url>
</scm>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
<executions>
<!-- Associate the read-project-properties goal with the initialize phase, to read the properties file. -->
<execution>
<phase>initialize</phase>
<goals>
<goal>read-project-properties</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<files>
<file>${basedir}/buildNumber.properties</file>
<file>${basedir}/mayil.properties</file>
</files>
<quite>false</quite>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<target>
<echo>Displaying value of properties</echo>
<echo>${nameofmayil}</echo>
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
The property file is loaded properly, i checked with that.

The POM shown has the properties-maven-plugin execution bound to the initialize phase, and the antrun plugin goal displaying the properties bound to the validate phase. initialize comes after validate (per the Maven lifecycle docs) which is why you're not seeing the results you want. You may fix in a couple of ways:
bind the properties-maven-plugin goal to the validate phase OR
bind the maven-antrun-plugin goal to the initialize phase
Both of the above have goals bound to the same phase. This is fine, as long as the goals are listed in the POM in the order you want them to execute. If you want them bound to distinct phases, perform both steps.