mvn-dependency

goals manage Maven dependencies

TLDR

Show dependency tree

$ mvn dependency:tree

Analyze dependencies

$ mvn dependency:analyze

List dependencies

$ mvn dependency:list

Copy dependencies

$ mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

Resolve dependencies

$ mvn dependency:resolve

Verbose tree showing conflict resolution

$ mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose

Filter tree by scope

$ mvn dependency:tree -Dscope=[compile]

Purge local copies and re-resolve

$ mvn dependency:purge-local-repository

SYNOPSIS

mvn dependency:goal [options]

The maven-dependency-plugin provides goals for analyzing, listing, copying, and resolving Maven project dependencies. The tree goal is the most commonly used, displaying the full transitive dependency tree with conflict resolution details when -Dverbose is enabled. The analyze goal identifies dependencies that are declared but unused, or used but not explicitly declared.

PARAMETERS

GOAL

Dependency plugin goal.

tree

Display dependency tree.

analyze

Analyze used/unused deps.

list

List all dependencies.

copy-dependencies

Copy deps to target.

resolve

Resolve and download all dependencies to the local repository.

purge-local-repository

Remove project dependencies from the local repository and optionally re-resolve them.

-Dscope SCOPE

Filter by dependency scope (compile, runtime, test, provided, system).

-Dincludes PATTERN

Filter output to matching artifacts (groupId:artifactId:type:version pattern, supports wildcards).

-DoutputFile FILE

Write output to a file instead of stdout (supported by tree, list, resolve).

CAVEATS

Requires a valid pom.xml. Network access is needed for initial resolution. The analyze goal cannot detect dependencies used only via reflection.

HISTORY

The Maven Dependency Plugin is part of Apache Maven, providing dependency analysis since early Maven versions.