I feel that I need to start this post with a disclaimer – this is for exceptional use cases only! In particular, take caution: In any of these cases, it’ll result in a transitive closur…

I have a proprietary jar that I want to add to my pom as a dependency.

But I don't want to add it to a repository. The reason is that I want my usual maven commands such as mvn compile, etc, to wo...

I have a JAR in my Android project and I want it to be added to final APK.
Okay, here I go:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.loopj.android.http</groupId>
    <artifac...

I have a local jar and I want to use it in my project. There are plenty ways to do it: just install manually into local repo, do it with script in parent pom, use system scope, use local repo decla...