How to find the artifacts that depend on another artifact?

Question

We are using Maven to build our projects and Nexus as repository manager.

Is there a way to know where an artifact is a dependency of another artifact?

For example, we want to know which of the artifacts in our Release repository have a dependency on commons-io 1.2, or version x.y of our framework2, or ...

Answer 1

mvn dependency:tree should help you get this info.

Answer 2

Have you looked at the Maven Site plugin in conjunction with the dependencies and dependencies-convergence report from the Maven Project Info Reports plugin?

This will generate an html report that shows all the artifacts that the project uses and what other artifacts that are dependent on that artifact.