Find all direct dependencies of an artifact on Maven Central

Question

For an artifact on Maven central (or any other given Nexus repository), I want to make a list of all direct dependencies.

At first, I thought about just reading the

Answer 1

The following workflow seems to be ok:

1. Download the pom from Maven central, put it a separate directory and name it pom.xml.

2. Apply mvn dependency:list -DexcludeTransitive and grab the console output.

3. Filter the list of dependencies from the console output.