java - Maven exec plugin- how to include "system" classpath?

Question

I have a project that uses "system" scope to specify a jar file included in my project's WEB-INF/lib dir. This artifact is not in any of the maven repositories, so I must include it as part of my project. I do so with the following:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.example</groupId>
        <artifactId>MySpecialLib</artifactId>
        <version>1.2</version>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <systemPath>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/MySpecialLib-1.2.jar</systemPath>
    </dependency>

This has worked great for most things.

But now I'm trying to run some code on the command line (outside of my webapp, via a main() method I have added) and mvn exec:java can't resolve code in MySpecialLib because it's not included in the "runtime" classpath.

How can I either:

• add MySpecialLib to the runtime classpath

or

• tell mvn exec:java to also use the system classpath ?

I've tried mvn exec:java -Dexec.classpathScope=system, but that leaves off everything that's on runtime.

Answer 1

Use 'compile' scope to run maven exec plugin - mvn exec:java -Dexec.classpathScope=compile. This will include system-scoped dependencies.