How to copy dependencies jars (without test jars) to a directory using maven?

Question

I see maven-dependency-plugin does this; however, it seems to copy everything (including test jars) to the destination directory. Anyone know how to configure this plugin to exclude test jars?

Answer 1

Mike answered their own question in a comment above. I think Mike's use case is similar to mine where I want to copy all of the jars I depend upon as well as my own jar in order to create a directory hierarchy sufficient to execute the program without including those dependencies directly into my own jar.

The answer to achieve this is:

<includeScope>compile</includeScope> 

This directive goes into the section of the pom.xml for the maven-dependency plugin. For example:

<plugin>     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>     <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>     <version>2.4</version>     <executions>         <execution>             <id>copy-dependencies</id>             <phase>prepare-package</phase>             <goals>                 <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>             </goals>             <configuration>                 <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>                 <includeScope>compile</includeScope>             </configuration>         </execution>     </executions> </plugin> 

excludeScope won't work because excluding test aborts the build and excludes all possible scopes. Instead the included scope needs to be adjusted.