Adding Library Using Maven

Hi!

I wanted to be able to use the Java Expression Library in my plugin, so I created a lib folder in my jar, added the library to the folder, and added the library to the build path. Sadly though, the console threw a NoClassDefFoundException when loaded like this.

I heard you can use Maven Shade to compile it to load right, but I have never used Maven before. Where should I begin? I have an Eclipse java project for my plugin with no Maven and the M2E plugin on Eclipse right now.

Thanks!
~thebiologist13

 

http://wiki.bukkit.org/Using_External_Libraries_with_Plugins

 

Ok thanks! I've looked into that, and now I have a Maven project with a pom.xml and stuff. How would I make it build with a jar in a place such as "/lib/jel.jar" in the pom though?

~thebiologist13