How to run a spring-boot jar with external jars which compile with maven dependency system?

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3rd party jars are not in the repo, may be updated from time to time.

I use dependency in maven as

    <dependency>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <systemPath>$path/$name.jar</systemPath>
   </dependency>

to compile and the jars are not in the bundle which is as I wish.

When spring-boot jar is deployed on the target machine, how to run it?

Start to use a repository manager and avoid system scope dependencies. Apart from that If I correctly remember spring boot maven plugin does take them into account? — khmarbaise, May 08 '18 at 07:33
using repo is not an option for this case since it has fixed path on deployed machine and are not managed in the repo — yk42b, May 08 '18 at 07:40
Your systemPath is a path on the productive machine where you run your application (not a path on the build server)? — J Fabian Meier, May 08 '18 at 07:53
systemPath is the path on the build machine. And unfortunately the path is different form the target machine — yk42b, May 08 '18 at 07:56
As far as I know, `` entries are purely used for _building_ the artifact. The runtime classpath is an entirely different thing. You can not expect your application to "look up" a systemPath from the pom at runtime. — J Fabian Meier, May 08 '18 at 07:59

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '18 at 08:15

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For including a jar from a path into your Spring boot classpath see

This means that you can safely manage your dependency in your pom by a repo (avoiding sytemPath dependencies).

answered May 08 '18 at 08:15

J Fabian Meier

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