Add library without gradle or maven

Question

I'm developing application backend using google app engine, using eclipse as IDE, and I want to use the google's Firebase SDK. In the integration page, Google give these options to install the backend's SDK:

We publish the Firebase Java SDK to the Maven central repository. To install the library, you can simply declare it as a dependency in your build.gradle file:

dependencies {
  compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-server-sdk:[3.0.0,)'
}

If you use Maven to build your application, you can add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.firebase</groupId>
  <artifactId>firebase-server-sdk</artifactId>
  <version>[3.0.0,)</version>
</dependency>

The backend doesn't use Gradle to build, and I'm not sure about the Maven option. Until now, I always downloaded the jars for the libraries I used

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can always manually download the jar from a central repository like Maven Central Repository. But I would strongly recommend getting familiar with some Java build tool as it will make your life a lot easier.