Maven - Depend on assembled zip

Question

I\'m trying to have a Project B pull down (and unpack) a ZIP built by Project A and deployed to a remote repository.

The ZIP is cre

Answer 1

If you ever want to do something like this from the command line (e.g. from a script without having to write a pom.xml file), here's the way to do it...

You can either specify the individual properties:

mvn dependency:copy -DgroupId=org.apache.maven -DartifactId=maven-core -Dversion=2.2.1 -Dpackaging=zip -Dclassifier=thisistheattachedartifactsclassifier

Or specify them all in one artifact parameter:

mvn dependency:copy -Dartifact=org.apache.maven:maven-core:2.2.1:zip:thisistheattachedartifactsclassifier

With the latter, it is important to keep the classifier at the end, after the packaging/type attribute. Like this: -Dartifact=groupId:artifactId:version:type:classifier

You can also optionally specify the target directory using the -DoutputDirectory= parameter if required.