Generating a repo from a bunch of jars

[Arthur Peters <am...@singingwizard.org>]

I am trying to convert a project to Maven and it is going reasonably well.
However the project uses Pellet (http://clarkparsia.com/pellet). And no
resent version of Pellet is available in any mvn repository I can find, so I
will need to build one my self.

I was wondering if there are any tools or scripts out there to convert a
bunch of jars into a repo using heuristics. That way I could automatically
generate a local repo inside the project to hold the jars that are not
available in the public repos. It would be even better if the tool could
automatically detect if a jar was already in the public repos and use that
version instead of the local one.

Thanks a lot.
-Arthur