How do I track plugin dependencies in maven2?

Question

I am trying to locate an evil plugin that includes a stoneage version of a certain jar file. How do I do that ?

Answer 1

also, mvn -X will spit out all kinds of info, i believe it includes dependency versions.

Answer 2

mvn dependency:resolve-plugins gives a list of dependencies for each plugin

Answer 3

mvn dependency:tree - shows you a tree of all dependencies including transitive dependencies