How can you display the Maven dependency tree for the *plugins* in your project?

Question

A common Maven debugging technique is to use mvn dependency:tree to view the graph of project dependencies.

However, this list shows the project dependencies, not

Answer 1

If you are using any IDE like IDEA IntelliJ or Eclipse:

• You can add this below plugin in your pom.xml
• Once done, On the Maven window (on the right of IDE), you will find a new plugin called as Dependencies
• Expand that and you will see the dependency:tree goal, double click on it and run it, you should see the full dependency tree

Plugin to be added in POM:

    
        
            maven-dependency-plugin
            
                1.8
                1.8