The Mojo team would like to announce the 1.0 release of the dependency-maven-plugin: This plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from repositories (local and remote)to a specified location.
The plugin has 4 goals: *copy: takes a list of artifacts defined in the plugin configuration section and copies them to a specified location, renaming them or stripping the version if desired. This goal can resolve the artifacts from remote repositories if they don't exist in local. This goal can also retrieve the version from dependencyManagement. *copy-dependencies: takes the list of dependencies and transitive dependencies and copies them to a specified location, stripping the version if desired. This goal can also be run from the command line. *unpack: like copy but unpacks. *unpack-dependencies: like copy-dependencies but unpacks. All goals are able to detect if the artifacts already exist and don't copy/unpack again Detailed docs are available at: http://mojo.codehaus.org/dependency-maven-plugin/ The plugin is available on ibiblio and ready for use. Thanks for the Mojo team for helping to make this plugin come to fruition.
