Unzip dependency in maven

Question

I have the following dependency in maven

  org.hyperic
  sigar-dist
           


        

Answer 1

just a follow up on answer from @Sean Patrick Floyd

this is my final pom.xml to download and unpack tomcat

    4.0.0

    org.koushik.javabrains
    tomcat
    pom
    1.0-SNAPSHOT
    tomcat

    
        8.0.27
        UTF-8
    

    
        
            
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-dependency-plugin
                2.8
                
                    
                        unpack-tomcat
                        package
                        
                            unpack-dependencies
                        
                        
                            org.apache.tomcat
                            tomcat
                            
                                ${project.build.directory}
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

    
        
            org.apache.tomcat
            tomcat
            ${tomcat.version}
            zip