I am trying to create a maven project that needs to package a bunch of maven artifacts to finally invoke jwrapper using the exec-maven-plugin. Because this project is mostly an integration task (jars are already compiled and deploy in a maven repo) i am wondering what are the tools available to download artifacts from a repo. Something like dependency:copy-dependencies or dependency:get but that would let me work in a more generic way such as "download every jar under com.mycompany.projectA.* and put it in target/libA" Having an explicit list of dependencies in the pom itself is not an option since 1) there are hundreds of jars 2) it introduces having to maintain a list of jars to use. I want to use instead "coordinate wildcards" to download whole areas of the repo.
I was planning on writing such a library (which later could be easily made into a maven plugin) but i wanted to know if there is something similar already in existence. Apart from the question of whether such a thing exists, I also want to know what are the philosophical arguments against it, if any. I have heard here talk about anything remotely touching integration should not be a job for maven, is that really the case? in this case i am still building an application, just not by compiling code but by integrating multiple jars Any thoughts? Alejandro Endo | Software Designer/Concepteur de logiciels DISCLAIMER: Privileged and/or Confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee of this message, you may not copy, use or deliver this message to anyone. In such event, you should destroy the message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. It is understood that opinions or conclusions that do not relate to the official business of the company are neither given nor endorsed by the company. Thank You.
