How to get a dependency tree for an artifact

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dependency tree can be used to see the dependency tree for a given project  But what I need is to see the dependency tree for a 3rd party artifact   I guess I can create an empty project  but I m looking for something easier  I need to do this for several artifacts

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If you use a current version of m2eclipse (which you should if you use eclipse and maven):

Select the menu entry

Navigate -> Open Maven POM

and enter the artifact you are looking for.

The pom will open in the pom editor, from which you can select the tab Dependency Hierarchy to view the dependency hierarchy (as the name suggests :-) )

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If your artifact is not a dependency of a given project  your best bet is to use a repository search engine  Many of them describes the dependencies of a given artifact

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1  Use maven dependency plugin Create a simple project with pom xml only  Add your dependency and run  mvn dependency tree  Unfortunately dependency mojo must use pom xml or you get following error   Cannot execute mojo  tree  It requires a project with an existing pom xml  but the build is not using one   2  Find pom xml of your artifact in maven central repository Dependencies are described In pom xml of your artifact  Find it using maven infrastructure  Go to https   search maven org  and enter your groupId and artifactId  Or you can go to https   repo1 maven org maven2  and navigate first using plugins groupId  later using artifactId and finally using its version  For example see org springframework spring-core 3  Use maven dependency plugin against your artifact Part of dependency artifact is a pom xml  That specifies it s dependency  And you can execute mvn dependency tree on this pom

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If you d like to get a graphical  searchable representation of the dependency tree  including all modules from your project  transitive dependencies and eviction information   check out UpdateImpact  https   app updateimpact com  free service    Disclaimer  I m one of the developers of the site

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I created an online tool to do this  Simply paste any dependency in pom file format  and the dependency tree for that artifact is generated  based on the central maven repository

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I know this post is quite old  but still  if anyone using IntelliJ any want to see dependency tree directly in IDE then they can install Maven Helper Plugin plugin    Once installed open pom xml and you would able to see Dependency Analyze tab like below  It also provides option to see dependency that is conflicted only and also as a tree structure

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If you bother creating a sample project and adding your 3rd party dependency to that  then you can run the following in order to see the full hierarchy of the dependencies   You can search for a specific artifact using this maven command   mvn dependency tree -Dverbose -Dincludes  groupId   artifactId   type   version    According to the documentation      where each pattern segment is optional and supports full and partial   wildcards  An empty pattern segment is treated as an implicit wildcard    Imagine you are trying to find  log4j-1 2-api  jar file among different modules of your project   mvn dependency tree -Dverbose -Dincludes org apache logging log4j log4j-1 2-api   more information can be found here   Edit  Please note that despite the advantages of using verbose parameter  it might not be so accurate in some conditions  Because it uses Maven 2 algorithm and may give wrong results when used with Maven 3

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The solution is to call dependency tree with the artifact s pom xml file   mvn -f   HOME  m2 repository  POM PATH  dependency tree   See also How to list the transitive dependencies of an artifact from a repository

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