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I'd like to download an artifact and its dependencies at the command line. I.e.
mvn [some plugin]:[goal] -DartifactId=[artifactId] -DgroupId=[groupId] -Dversion=[version] I've tried mvn dependency:get but this seems to require a list of remote repositories. I want mvn to use what's already specified in settings.xml
I've also tried the maven-download-plugin but this doesn't seem to work properly (it tried downloading xerces-impl as a transitive dependency of ant and failed to resolve it. Neither xerces-impl nor ant are dependencies of my artifact).
Your help would be appreciated.
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You can use the Maven Dependency Plugin to download dependencies. Run mvn dependency:copy-dependencies , to download all your dependencies and save them in the target/dependency folder. You can change the target location by setting the property outputDirectory .
When you run a Maven build, then Maven automatically downloads all the dependency jars into the local repository. It helps to avoid references to dependencies stored on remote machine every time a project is build. Maven local repository by default get created by Maven in %USER_HOME% directory.
The copy goal is more appropriate here and it lets you specify an output directory as well (which is deprecated in the get goal):
mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy -Dartifact=groupId:artifactId:version[:packaging][:classifier] -DoutputDirectory=[target] -Dmdep.useBaseVersion=true
mdep.useBaseVersion=true will remove timestamps from snapshot builds.
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