title: tell maven to get JAR dependency from given URL
body: <p>Unfortunately, my project has an external dependency that was never published to any Maven repository. The only way I can get it is by direct download from github (they pushed the binary to github).</p>
  
  <p>One (bad) way is to download the jar manually and commit/push it to my code repository (git). It wouldn't help me to manually deploy this artifact in my local binary repository because I share this project with external contributors that cannot access my private binary repo. </p>
  
  <p>I wonder if maven has a better way to handle this? (Given that I can't upload the artifact to my repo or public repo). </p>
  
  <p>I know that <strong>npm</strong> allows getting some dependencies from URL. Does maven support it as well?</p>