Ever find a jar that has it’s dependencies declared in a pom, but you don’t use maven?
I do all the time… because I don’t ever use maven!
So, here’s the deal:
create a pom that looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.doesnt.matter</groupId>
<artifactId>AlsoDoesntMatter</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>Simple POM to download some dependencies</name>
<url>http://jonfuller.co</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.netflix.rxjava</groupId>
<artifactId>rxjava-core</artifactId>
<version>0.18.3</version>
<scope/>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
The example above downloads the dependencies for Netflix’s rxjava-core (version 0.18.3) jar.
Note: Figure out your dependeny’s actual groupId, artifactId, and version numbers are by checking out maven central
execute this at your terminal:
mvn -f example-pom.xml dependency:copy-dependencies
Need maven? brew install maven, if you’re on OS X.
wait while maven downloads the Internet.
bask in the glory of your new pile of jars. (located at target/dependency)
For me, I was really wanting to download the dependencies for retrofit. I’ve dropped the above and an example for retrofit into a gist for your viewing pleasure: