I have an external .jar file (not available in the public repos) that I need to reference in my project and I'm trying to figure out what my best option is.

It's a small scale project without a central repository for libraries, so it has to be either a local repository (somehow added to source control, don't know if it's supposed to work that way?) or the .jar needs to be stored on disk outside of any formal repository.

I still can't seem to have Eclipse see the dependency. I manually added it to the section of the pom, and it shows up fine in the Dependencies list in m2eclipse. mvn compile and mvn package both succeed, but running the program results in:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems: LibraryStuff cannot be resolved to a type

This is after editing the POM as:

  stuff
  library
  1.0
  ${lib.location}/MyLibrary.jar
  system

Should I be executing mvn install:install-file even thought I already have the pom.xml edited as above?