Maven offline - problem with mvn-plugins

Question

I\'m using maven in my project and I need to run the build in a non-internet-access machine.

When I test my project build everything is working, bu

Answer 1

After some debugging I found that maven-dependency-plugin (version 3.1.1 at the time of writing) is unable to resolve plugin's dependencies when specified like:

 org.apache.maven.plugins
 maven-surefire-plugin
 3.0.0-M3
 
      <--- this is not going to be resolved by dependency:go-offline command !!!
   org.apache.maven.surefire
   surefire-junit4
   3.0.0-M3
  
 

After that I found go-offline-maven-plugin which just works! Pls see https://github.com/qaware/go-offline-maven-plugin for more info.

 de.qaware.maven
 go-offline-maven-plugin
 x.y.z

Current version could be found here https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/de.qaware.maven/go-offline-maven-plugin and Maven issue here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDEP-82