MavenLocal

Take this scenario.

You are writing a new application A
B is an existing application that needs to be integrated with A

Now A is not in production yet and definitely not uploaded to your firm's Maven repository.
Or you might want to see how A works with B. Some basic integration, that I, as A's developer, need to ensure.

What I need is, to publish A in a local repository from where B will read from.

A and B both are gradle projects.

From A :

    publishing {

        repositories {

            mavenLocal()

        }

       

        publications {

            mavenJava(MavenPublication) {

                from components.java

            }

        }

    }

This uploads A's artifacts to m2 repository

And at B:

repositories {

        maven {

            url 'http://mavenAtMyFirm'

        }

        // Added to look for dependent libraries in local maven repo. Helps in integration

        mavenLocal()

    }

mavenLocal will read dependencies from local m2 repository.