External Jars with IntelliJ IDEA

Hello,

The issue I have is creating my own dependency. I have this plugin named Backpacks, and I have another plugin which is a library. I would like to have Backpacks depend on the library. I cannot figure out how to use Maven to create that dependency. Any help would greatly be appreciated. If you need me to explain future I will gladly do so.
Thank you for reading.

 

If I understood right, you need to add the following line to your plugin.yml file:

Code:

depend: [YOUR_LIB_NAME_HERE]

And if you want to add more plugins, seperate them with a comma.
Sorry for my bad English

 

@oriamrm
Sorry if i didn't phrase that correctly. I meant to say that I want to make an external jar accessible using Maven. An example is that you can make Bukkit accessible within a plugin, but I want to make one of my own plugins accessible within my own plugin.

 

@Ricecutter0
Go into the library project and run "mvn install". Then you can add it as a normal dependency in the pom.xml of the other plugin.
If your plugin has the group id "me.ialistannen" and the artifact id "Library" and the version "1.0", then writing

Code:

<dependency>
    <groupId>me.ialistannen</groupId>
    <artifactId>Library</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

should be alright.

If your library is on github, you can use a service like jitpack.io to add it to any plugin without needing to use "mvn install" on the computer first.