Make Maven to copy dependencies into target/lib

Question

How do I get my project's runtime dependencies copied into the target/lib folder?

As it is right now, after mvn clean install the target folder contains only my project's jar, but none of the runtime dependencies.

Answer 1

This works for me:

<project>   ...   <profiles>     <profile>       <id>qa</id>       <build>         <plugins>           <plugin>             <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>             <executions>               <execution>                 <phase>install</phase>                 <goals>                   <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>                 </goals>                 <configuration>                   <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>                 </configuration>               </execution>             </executions>           </plugin>         </plugins>       </build>     </profile>   </profiles> </project> 

Answer 2

mvn install dependency:copy-dependencies  

Works for me with dependencies directory created in target folder. Like it!