How do I find the latest version of an artifact from a maven repository

Question

As part of an automated deployment I need a script to download the latest version of an artifact from our internal repository.

Ideally this script will be with ant or a

Answer 1

You can use the Maven Dependency Plugin goal get together with LATEST as version for your artifact:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:get
    -DremoteRepositories=
    -Dartifact=::LATEST
    -Dpackaging=jar
    -Ddest=/.jar