Downloading all maven dependencies to a directory NOT in repository

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I started to convert my project to maven because I needed to use a library that was distributed in binary form over maven only  but after banging my head against the wall on it for far too long I ve decided to stop hurting myself and just use Ant   I d like to just have maven download the jar and all of its transitive dependencies into a directory of my choosing so I can just check them into my SCM as I normally enjoy and be a blissful developer once again  Any ideas how to do that easily

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I finally figured out a how to use Maven. From within Eclipse, create a new Maven project.

Download Maven, extract the archive, add the /bin folder to path.

Validate install from command-line by running mvn -v (will print version and java install path)

Change to the project root folder (where pom.xml is located) and run:

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

All jar-files are downloaded to /target/dependency.

To set another output directory:

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory="c:\temp"

Now it's possible to re-use this Maven-project for all dependency downloads by altering the pom.xml

Add jars to java project by build path -> configure build path -> libraries -> add JARs..

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The maven dependency plugin can potentially solve your problem   If you have a pom with all your project dependencies specified  all you would need to do is run  mvn dependency copy-dependencies   and you will find the target dependencies folder filled with all the dependencies  including transitive   Adding Gustavo s answer from below  To download the dependency sources  you can use  mvn dependency copy-dependencies -Dclassifier sources    via Apache Maven Dependency Plugin doc

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I found the next command  mvn dependency copy-dependencies -Dclassifier sources  here maven apache org

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Please check if you have some config files in   MAVEN HOME  conf directory like settings xml  Those files overrides settings from  m2 folder and because of that  repository folder from  m2 might not be visible or discarded

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Based on  Raghuram answer  I find a tutorial on Copying project dependencies  Just    Open your project pom xml file and find this    lt project gt             lt build gt       lt plugins gt                 lt  plugins gt     lt  build gt           lt  project gt   Than replace the  lt plugins gt       lt  plugins gt  with    lt plugins gt     lt plugin gt       lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt maven-dependency-plugin lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 3 0 0 lt  version gt       lt executions gt         lt execution gt           lt id gt copy-dependencies lt  id gt           lt phase gt package lt  phase gt           lt goals gt             lt goal gt copy-dependencies lt  goal gt           lt  goals gt           lt configuration gt             lt outputDirectory gt   project build directory  alternateLocation lt  outputDirectory gt             lt overWriteReleases gt false lt  overWriteReleases gt             lt overWriteSnapshots gt false lt  overWriteSnapshots gt             lt overWriteIfNewer gt true lt  overWriteIfNewer gt           lt  configuration gt         lt  execution gt       lt  executions gt     lt  plugin gt   lt  plugins gt   And call maven within the command line mvn dependency copy-dependencies   After it finishes  it will create the folder target dependency within all the jar s dependencies on the current directory where the pom xml lives

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