Question

Is there a maven client that isn’t mvn (the binary included with the maven distribution) I could use to pull down an artifact from a maven repository without using a pom? I’d like to use a maven repository as the repo for our ops team to pick up builds (including snapshots of
builds) but I don’t want them to have to mess around with writing poms and declaring dependencies in them. Ideally, I’m looking for just a cli client that I could just pass in a repo url and coordinates and download a given artifact. Does such a thing exist or am I better off writing a one-off script for this?

Answer 1

Use Nexus. It provides a web interface that other teams can use to download artifacts. http://nexus.sonatype.org/