Using newrelic with maven, Java

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When using newrelic in java, it isn't obvious how to mavenize things. Newrelic has two java jars: newrelic.jar and newrelic-api.jar. There's also another newrelic.yaml of course. For development you need the api.jar in your classpath. In production you want the api jar in the classpath, but also newrelic.jar as an agent. Newrelic have a good explanation about how to set up newrelic.jar as an agent but they don't have anything regarding how to develop and get the api jar in place using maven, so here goes...

Add the repository:

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>newrelic</id>
    <name>newrelic</name>
    <url>http://download.newrelic.com/</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Add the dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>newrelic.java-agent</groupId>
  <artifactId>newrelic-api</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.0</version>
</dependency>

Found this via Google. Thanks, very useful. One question though: where did you end up putting your config file? src/main/resources?

Thanks this was helpful