The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Dependency Plugin, version 2.0-alpha-2
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/ The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified location. Dependency plugin has several goals: * dependency: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. * dependency:copy-dependencies takes the list of project direct dependencies and optionally transitive dependencies and copies them to a specified location, stripping the version if desired. This goal can also be run from the command line. * dependency:unpack like copy but unpacks. * dependency:unpack-dependencies like copy-dependencies but unpacks. * dependency:resolve tells Maven to resolve all dependencies and displays the version. * dependency:sources tells Maven to resolve all dependencies and their source attachments, and displays the version. * dependency:resolve-plugins Tells Maven to resolve plugins and their dependencies. * dependency:go-offline tells Maven to resolve everything this project is dependent on (dependencies, plugins, reports) in preparation for going offline. * dependency:purge-local-repository tells Maven to clear all dependency-artifact files out of the local repository, and optionally re-resolve them. * dependency:build-classpath tells Maven to output the path of the dependencies from the local repository in a classpath format to be used in java -cp You can run mvn -U to get the latest version of the plugin. Release Notes - Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin - Version 2.0-alpha-2 ** Bug * [MDEP-27] - Plugin configuration error message - caused by certain liefecycle bindings * [MDEP-56] - test-jar * [MDEP-58] - linux / mac unit test failures * [MDEP-60] - Multiple plugin execution sections not correctly executed * [MDEP-66] - Sources goal not implemented * [MDEP-67] - NPE when resolving the version of a dependency * [MDEP-69] - Version 2.0-alpha-2 was incorrectly deployed to central repository (POM is missing) ** Improvement * [MDEP-55] - generate javadocs and jar src files with releae * [MDEP-57] - dependency:resolve should output scope * [MDEP-63] - allow version to be stripped from useSubfolderPerArtifact ** New Feature * [MDEP-26] - New goal to write classpath string with all dependencies from local repo * [MDEP-54] - Exclude and Include specific dependencies based on Artifact id or group name * [MDEP-65] - Copy dependencies in a Maven repository like layout - The Maven Team
