There are times when you do not have a POM for a 3rd party artifact. For instance, when installing a proprietary or commercial JAR into a repository. The Install Plugin can create a generic POM in this case which contains the minimal set of POM elements required by Maven, such as groupId, artifactId, version, packaging. You tell Maven to generate a POM by setting the generatePom parameter to true.
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=path-to-your-artifact-jar \
-DgroupId=your.groupId \
-DartifactId=your-artifactId \
-Dversion=version \
-Dpackaging=jar \
-DgeneratePom=true