A project that outputs a POM

I am new to Maven and I'm trying to convert a web project to Maven build-able. My project has a dependency on the eclipse's BIRT reporting engine 2.6. I cannot find a public repository with a satisfactory BIRT pom, which is very sad because BIRT has TONS of dependencies (see this question, and my comment under the answer for more details). Is there some way that I can create a maven project that contains all of the BIRT .jars, and at build-time will output a pom开发者_开发百科, in which I can declare as a dependency in my web project?

You could create a pom similar to this one, which would list all the BIRT dependencies you need, but have the packaging as 'pom'. Then you declare a dependency on this pom and you will get those dependencies.