Possibly you could have a look at if your repo manager could help you with this. I know that Nexus has this feature [1]; possibly other repo managers do as well.
/Anders [1] http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/using-sect-browsing.html#fig-using-dependencies On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Curtis Rueden <ctrue...@wisc.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering whether there is a way to utilize certain useful Maven > goals when outside of a particular Maven project's actual source directory > structure. For example, I would like to ask Maven for the effective POM of > an installed artifact. > > Why? Because I want to know the classpath fragment (all necessary JARs from > the local repository cache) for a given GAV. > > I started writing a script to compute it manually. Current work in progress > is here: > https://gist.github.com/3762396 > > However, it would be nice to lean on the Maven command line tool to do the > heavy lifting, rather than doing recursive parsing like my script does now. > I definitely don't want to reinvent all the goodness that Maven provides. > Right now, there are many things the script can't deal with: > 1) downloading missing artifacts from a remote repository; > 2) computing an effective POM for the project; > 3) resolving properties properly from that effective POM... > Just to name a few at the tip of the iceberg. > > It seems like many Maven goals (e.g., help:effective-pom, dependency:list, > dependency:tree) would make sense to invoke with respect to a given Maven > project, when outside of that project's actual source folder. > > Is this at all possible? Or any alternative suggestion to achieve my goals > here? > > Thanks, > Curtis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
