Maven: downloading files from url

Question

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

Answer 1

You can use the download-single goal in the wagon plugin. Here is an example to download an HTML page (notice that the URL have to be split in a "directory" url and a "file name")

  org.codehaus.mojo
  wagon-maven-plugin
  1.0
  
    
      validate
      download-single
      
        http://www.mojohaus.org/wagon-maven-plugin
        download-single-mojo.html
        [my dir]/mojo-help.html