Adding Github Repository as a Dependecy to Java Project

I just learned that we could easily add a Github repository as a dependency to a Java project using JitPack. Below is an example to a Maven project to which we wish to add JGraphX as a dependency to the Maven project. Since JGraphX "don't properly support Maven or publish to Maven Central", this comes very handy. I view this as a two step approach:

1. Add JitPack to the pom.xml. I added the following just above the dependencies tag:

   
   <repositories>
    <repository>
     <id>jitpack.io</id>
     <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
   </repositories>
   

2. Add a Git commit or release of a Git repository as a dependency. In the following, we use the JGraphX project as an example. The project's Git repository is the JGraphX repository whose url is https://github.com/jgraph/jgraphx.git, from which we read that the Github username is jgraph, and the repository name is jgraphx. Browsing the project repository, we can select a commit by using its commit id (i.e., commit hash), or a tag, or a release. The JGraphX has a number releases as seen at https://github.com/jgraph/jgraphx/releases, among which is v4.0.3. Having gathered the Github username, the repository name, and the release number, we add the following as a child tag to the dependencies tag,

   
    <dependency>
     <groupId>com.github.jgraph</groupId>
     <artifactId>jgraphx</artifactId>
     <version>v4.0.3</version>
    </dependency>
   

After these two steps, we do a Maven update.