How to copy dependencies jars (without test jars) to a directory using maven?

Question

I see maven-dependency-plugin does this; however, it seems to copy everything (including test jars) to the destination directory. Anyone know how to configure t

Answer 1

Mike answered their own question in a comment above. I think Mike's use case is similar to mine where I want to copy all of the jars I depend upon as well as my own jar in order to create a directory hierarchy sufficient to execute the program without including those dependencies directly into my own jar.

The answer to achieve this is:

compile

This directive goes into the section of the pom.xml for the maven-dependency plugin. For example:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-dependency-plugin
    2.4
    
        
            copy-dependencies
            prepare-package
            
                copy-dependencies
            
            
                ${project.build.directory}/lib
                compile
            
        
    

excludeScope won't work because excluding test aborts the build and excludes all possible scopes. Instead the included scope needs to be adjusted.