Question

Is there an easy way to download all the official Maven plugins (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/index.html) with one command?

I’m setting up an offline repository for use within a corporate environment and I wanted to make sure that I had all the official maven plugins available.

Answer 1

Is there an easy way to download all the Maven plugins with one command?

I guess that you need to go offline but the short answer is no.

1. There is no exhaustive list of all plugins and plugins are not centralized in a single place so if you don’t know what you’re looking for, what does “all” mean?
2. You don’t want to wget them (this won’t give you plugins dependencies).
3. You don’t want to crawl the entire (central) repository.

A plugin must be used (assuming the relevant pluginRepository element is declared in the POM) to get downloaded. So your best bet is to create a “fake” POM with all the plugins you think you’ll need and to let Maven do its job. But I sincerely wish you good luck with this task, this is going to take some time.