How to download an artifact with its dependencies to a specified directory - without pom.xml - using Maven?
java, maven
Solution
Inspired by the this answer, I created a simple bash script to solve the problem:
#mvn-copy.sh
mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy -Dmdep.useBaseVersion=true -DoutputDirectory=. -Dartifact=$1:$2:$3
mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy -Dmdep.stripVersion=true -DoutputDirectory=. -Dartifact=$1:$2:$3:pom
mvn -f $2.pom org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory=lib
To use it, just type `./mvn-copy.sh <groupId> <artifactId> <version>`. It will download the main jar at the current directory, and then all dependencies into a `lib` folder.
Not the best solution, not the most beautiful one, and not quite what I wanted, but it solved the problem and saved the day.
Problem
What I need to do is to download an artifact from my internal repository (currently Nexus) with all its dependencies, to a specified directory. And that without actually downloading the source code (and using its `pom.xml`): I need to just run a plain maven command from the shell and access the binaries in my repository. I don't need to download the dependencies to my local repository (the behaviour of the dependency:get / dependency:copy plugins), I want the artifact AND all of its dependencies copied to a specified directory. Something like this: ``` mvn super-downloader:download-everything -Dartifact=my.group:myArtifact:version -Ddirectory=. ``` What I've tried: dependency:get and dependency:copy plugins copy the dependencies to my local repository (under ~/.m2) which is not what I want. dependency:copy-dependencies requires a maven project. I need to run the command without a pom.xml. com.googlecode.maven-download-plugin:maven-download-plugin:artifact plugin should work with `-DdependencyDepth=<some high value>`, but it fails trying to resolve a dependency to `xerces:xerces-impl:2.6.2`. I manually uploaded it to my Nexus, but then it failed trying to find `xml-apis:xml-apis:2.6.2`, which doesn't exist. So, any ideas? Thanks.