Maven: downloading files from url

Question

Can I download some files from http while maven lifecycle? any plugin?

Answer 1

I'd like to add a few thing about the download-maven-plugin:

• Project is now hosted on GitHub https://github.com/maven-download-plugin/maven-download-plugin
• Its releases are available on Maven Central, and the SNAPSHOTs are available on the oss.sonatype.org snapshot repository
• Compared to other suggestions mentioned here, the download-maven-plugin adds the following interesting feature: caching of files (to avoid always redownloading big files) and signature verification to make sure download got the right bits.