desktop GUI tool to browse and install new jars to the local maven repo

Question

It would be even better if the same standalone tool can also support browsing repositories over other protocols than file system

Answer 1

I've found this simple tool which is great

http://code.google.com/p/mycila/wiki/MavenDeployer

Answer 2

The small tool maven-install-ui (https://github.com/escv/maven-install-ui) offers a simple UI to install jar files locally.