Attention: in order to get the latest PayPal NVP SDK download it from the official site (the one used here is PP_Java_NVP_SDK_4302012.zip) PayPal NVP SDK mavenized PayPal NVP SDK downloaded from https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/paypal-sdk-index (PP_Java_NVP_SDK_4302012.zip) with pom.xml to be able to build maven artifact with all dependencies required. You can then distribute the generated jar with your application (if you don't have your own maven repository) by adding custom repository definition into your parent POM: <repositories> <repository> <id><application>-repo</id> <url>file://${basedir}/../com.<application>.parent/repo</url> </repository> </repositories> Steps: 1. Create "repo" folder inside your parent POM project 2. Run mvn install:install-file -Dfile=<path to paypal-base jar file> -DgroupId=com.paypal.sdk \ -DartifactId=paypal-base -Dversion=5.4.68 \ -Dpackaging=jar -DlocalRepositoryPath=<path to your application repository> 3. java -jar nexus-indexer-3.0.4-cli.jar --type full --index <path to index folder> --name <repository name> --repository <path to your application repository> --errors --legacy or short form: java -jar nexus-indexer-3.0.4-cli.jar -t full -i <path to index folder> -n <repository name> -r <path to your application repository> -e -l You can read more about Nexu Indexer, how to use it and why you need it here https://docs.sonatype.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Nexus+Indexer 4. Copy generated nexus-maven-repository-index.{gz,properties,zip} into .index folder of your parent POM project