There are times when you need to use a jar right now but don't want to put it in the

ivy repo or tmp jars. So what do you do? Create a local ivy repo for it.

 mkdir -p $HOME/.ivy/{PROJECTNAME}/local/
 cp name-version.jar $HOME/.ivy/{PROJECTNAME}/local/
 vi ivy.xml

put your jar in the above directory (name-version.jar) then update ivy.xml. It will look at your local ivy repo first.

Enjoy.

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