[fedora-java] Building a package that uses Maven and depends on other libraries

[Mary Ellen Foster]

I've embarked on a quest to package JabRef for Fedora
(http://jabref.sourceforge.net/). It has an annoying number of
dependencies, but the one I'm stuck on right now is "spin"
(http://spin.sourceforge.net/). This in turn depends on cglib
(http://cglib.sourceforge.net), which is easy to package and I've got
a version already at
    http://mef.fedorapeople.org/cglib/
(haven't put it up for review yet because I want to try to get
everything complete).

The problem now is: spin is built with maven, about which I know just
about nothing. I've managed to install the required maven plugins
(compiler, assembler, etc), but how do I point maven at my cglib jar
file in /usr/share/java? The relevant part of the pom.xml file looks
like this:
    <dependency>
      <groupId>cglib</groupId>
      <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
      <version>2.1_3</version>
      <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
I've tried making the obvious edits -- changing cglib-nodep to cglib
and version to 2.2 to agree with the cglib RPM -- but mv-jpp still
persists in not finding it when I try to build. What's the magic
trick? Is it documented in the wiki anywhere that I've missed?

Thanks for any help,

MEF

-- 
Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh