How do I specify the local Maven Repository location the Atlassian SDK uses?

[Jim Bethancourt]

I develop software other than Atlassian plugins with Maven 2/3 and I'd like to be able to store the Atlassian artifacts in my local repository instead of the repository directory in the SDK to avoid duplication on my hard drive.

Looking at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-configuring-maven.html it looks like I would need to add the

<localRepository>~/.m2/repository</localRepository>

element to the settings.xml file in SDK_DIR/apache-maven/conf, but that didn't seem to work.

[Jim Bethancourt · Accepted solution]

Specify the location explicity - e.g.

<localRepository>C:/path/to/my/repository</localRepository>

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

Is this really needed, it seems "extremly unportable".

[Jim Bethancourt]

Looking at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-configuring-maven.html it looks like I would need to add the

<localRepository>~/.m2/repository</localRepository>

element to the settings.xml file in SDK_DIR/apache-maven/conf, but that didn't seem to work.