If you want to download maven dependencies into your lib directory use the dependency plugin with the copy-dependencies function.
mvn -DoutputDirectory=./lib -DincludeArtifactIds=commons-logging,commons-io dependency:copy-dependencies
Without the -DincludeArtifactIds part you’ll download every dependency.
If you want to download a an artifact without having a specific project *see below** :
mvn -DgroupId=commons-io -DartifactId=commons-io -Dversion=1.4 dependency:get
Resources :
- maven.apache.org – dependency:copy-dependencies
- force Maven2 to copy dependencies into target/lib
- maven.apache.org – dependency:get *see below**
On the same topic :
- Aggregate Dependencies in a Multi-Module Maven Project
- Set plugin’s property on the command line in maven 2
- A simple command line to download a remote maven2 artifact to the local repository? *see below**
Interesting comments :
- *@Pascal Thivent :
No need to setup a POM, no need to develop your own tool, use mvn dependency:get. That’s the right answer to this question.