title: How do I manage jre/lib/ext jars in a Jenkins/Maven build?
body: <p>I'm trying to set up a build for my team on a Jenkins box.  They are using a product whose documentation says to drop 2 jar files and a .properties file in the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext directory.</p>
  
  <p>Since this Jenkins build box is managed by another team and houses many builds, I feel that it is a bad idea to tell them to install these files on all the slaves that may build this project. (especially if we were to need to upgrade/change settings/etc.)</p>
  
  <p>Is there a best-practice for managing this sort of thing?</p>
  
  <p>Things I've tried so far:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Installing it in the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext == works.</li>
  <li>Installing the jar files in the maven repo and dropping the properties file in src/main/resources == doesn't work (it looks in $M2_REPO/PATH/TO/JAR/jarname.properties) </li>
  </ul>