Well after almost 6 months of silence, here’s a maven quick tipif you need to add a dependency on a library without adding ityour local maven repository.Define the dependency scope as system and the path to your library:

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<dependency>
	<groupid>weblogic</groupid>
	<artifactid>weblogic</artifactid>
	<version>8.1.4</version>
	<scope>system</scope>
	<systempath>
		${weblogic.home}/server/lib/weblogic.jar
	</systempath>
</dependency>

Then, either declare the weblogic.home property in your pom :

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<properties>
      <weblogic.home>c:/bea/weblogic81</weblogic.home>
</properties>

or add it to your settings.xml file by adding it to a default profile:

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<profile>
     <id>dev</id>
     <properties>
        <weblogic.home>C:/bea/weblogic81</weblogic.home>
     </properties>
</profile>

<activeprofiles>
    <activeprofile>dev</activeprofile>
</activeprofiles>

I am not yet fully committed to maven but it really shines for kickstartingJ2EE projects with artifacts and easily downloadable dependencies libraries.