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  Installing Secondary Artifacts
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  Dennis Lundberg
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  2009-03-22
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Installing Secondary Artifacts

  Sometimes you need to install secondary artifacts after the main artifact has
  been installed in your local repository. To install a secondary artifact you
  need to use the <<<classifier>>> parameter to classify the secondary artifact.

  Let us assume that you want to install the sources for an old artifact, like
  commons-logging-1.0.3. The
  {{{http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.3/}central repository}}
  only has the main artifact and a <<<-javadoc>>> artifact for that version.
  Package up the sources into a JAR file on your local disk and then run the
  following command:

+---+
mvn ${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}:${project.version}:install-file  -Dfile=path-to-commons-logging-sources.jar \
                                                                              -DgroupId=commons-logging \
                                                                              -DartifactId=commons-logging \ 
                                                                              -Dversion=1.0.3 \
                                                                              -Dpackaging=jar \
                                                                              -Dclassifier=sources
+---+

  <<Note>>: By using the fully qualified path of a goal, you're ensured to be using the preferred version of the maven-install-plugin. When using <<<mvn install:install-file>>> 
  its version depends on its specification in the pom or the version of Apache Maven.