I need (ultimately) a list of URLs corresponding to elements in a project's classpath, where that classpath has been sorted in dependency order. (I don't actually care if it's sorted "ascending" or "descending".)
I need this for a mojo that I'm working on that will be run as part of an ear project's generate-resources phase. (Running mvn dependency:list or mvn dependency:build-classpath on such a project gets all the right jar files in there, but not in dependency order. That is, if the ear project depends on A which depends on B which depends on C, mvn dependency:list will return C before B.) I've noticed that Surefire seems to get this exactly right. If you look at the classpath when you're running a unit test, you'll notice that all dependencies are in that classpath and in proper topological order. But I can't see an easy way to inherit from or use Surefire simply for this purpose, nor, frankly, would I want to. What's the best/sanctioned way to get this information? Thanks, Laird
