I wanted to get feedback on a proposed improvement to the maven-dependency-plugin, specifically for the goals that analyze dependency usages. We have the plugin configured to fail our build if there are any used undeclared or unused declared dependencies. In the case of used undeclared, it is often helpful to know which classes are being used and where they are being used. Previously we had a few workarounds to try to expose this information to our developers after-the-fact (by grepping class files, using IDE features, etc.) but it would be great if this was just included in the plugin output. We've implemented this feature in our fork of the plugin and our developers love it. Here an is example of the output before and after: https://gist.github.com/jhaber/d8204829fe61569e0034250df74300fb
I've written this up as a JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-632 And sent a pull request with the required changes to the maven-dependency-analyzer (which needs to expose more information so that the plugin can generate this output): https://github.com/apache/maven-shared/pull/21 Do you think this feature adds value? Any suggestions? Thanks, Jonathan
