Using Maven to download dependencies to a directory on the command line

Question

I need to download all transitive dependencies of a project to a directory on the command line without having a pom.xml file or other script. Ideally I woul

Answer 1

According to my understanding you want to download all dependencies artifacts to one folder on your local computer (without search your local repository). The simple way to do it is to create a simple pom.xml (yes, please create the pom) that will create the WAR file and will depend on your artifact. After mvn clean package your will find all dependencies artifacts (include transitive) in the lib folder of the WAR.

    4.0.0
    testwar
    examplewar
    war
    1.0-SNAPSHOT
    examplewar Maven Webapp
    
        
            org.jclouds.provider
            rackspace-cloudservers-us
            1.5.8