Resolves and downloads all dependencies of a customizable set of maven artifacts.
Sometimes it is desirable to resolve all dependency of maven artifacts without editing/copying your project pom (e.g. your pom is in a separated net without internet connection). This tool fills the gap: Enter the desired artifacts in a JSON file (see dependencies.json) or provide the artifacts on the command line (see Usage) and start this program. It will download the specified artifacts with all dependencies. Additionally this tool can also download the javadoc and source attachments. The downloaded artifacts can then be used in an "internet-less/offline" Nexus or in your local maven repository.
Since I assume you are familar with maven, compiling and starting is straight forward, eg.:
$ mvn package exec:java -Dexec.args="--help"
or easier
$ ./mvn-dd --help
will give you the options to fiddle about.
Sample usage after filling the file dependencies.json with the wanted artifacts to download artifacts with javadoc and source:
$ ./mvn-dd --with-javadoc --with-sources
Alternatively you may use the jar:
$ java -jar target/mvn-dependency-downloader-jar-with-dependencies.jar --help
(for the lazy: there are also short-option names ;-) )
In either case you may provide the "coordinates" of the artifacts directly, e.g.:
$ ./mvn-dd org.apache.cxf:cxf-codegen-plugin:2.7.5 [...]
The coordinates of an artifact are expected in this format (separate each artifact by a space):
<groupId>:<artifactId>[:<extension>[:<classifier>]]:<version>
Extra repositories to be queried for mavenized jars can be added
in the file extra-repos.json.
- Some artifacts do not provide source or javadoc attachments. The program will state an warning in such cases.
- Does not download eg. test scope within the dependency tree. See also issue #1
Eclipse Public License (see COPYING)
- Version bumps of referenced libraries
- Added shell scripts Linux and Windows
- Corrected package structure
- Providing artifact coordinates from CLI
- Initial release to Github