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Question

I am letting Maven copy some dependency files into a specific location for a GWT project. The maven-dependency-plugin does the job and so far it works. The only

Answer 1

I had to wrap plugins tag under pluginManagement to make the error go away.

        
            
               org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-dependency-plugin
                3.0.0
                
                    
                        copy-dependencies
                        package
                        
                            copy-dependencies
                        
                        
                            ../../lib/
                            false
                            false
                            true