mvnhack can download libraries from maven2 repositories without maven2. download mvnhack here.

JavaSE 6(tested by 1.6.0_17) or more

java -jar mvnhack.jar [groupId] [artifactId] [version] flat=[on/off] dest=[path]

• groupId

  • if groupId and artifactId has same id, you skip this.

• artifactId

  • target library's artifactId.

• version

  • target library's version

• flat

  • default is on.
  • if you want to get own your local repository only. switch to off.

• dest

  • destination directry.
  • default is execution directory.

java -jar mvnhack.jar [yml]

• yaml

  • get libraries based on yaml. skip this and current dir contains dependencies.yml then use that file.

• proxy

  • Proxy URL. auto detect HTTP or SOCKS proxy.
  • cf. Networking Properties

• repository

  • comma separated maven2 remote/local additional repository URLs.

• if execution directory has directory that name is repository, use as local repository.
• if directory of user.home has m2/repository, use it.
• maven central repository

java -jar mvnhack-0.0.2.jar commons-httpclient 2.0.2

you get commons-httpclient-2.0.2.jar ,commons-logging-1.0.3.jar and some source.jars into execution directory.

in this case,

• groupId is skipped
• artifactId is commons-httpclient
• version is 2.0.2
• you will be get two kind of artifacts, because commons-httpclient depends commons-logging.

java -jar mvnhack-0.0.2.jar org.slf4j slf4j-simple 1.4.3 flat=off dest=./foo

you get slf4j-simple-1.4.3.jar ,slf4j-api-1.4.3.jar and some source.jars into execution directory.

in this case,

• groupId is org.slf4j
• artifactId is slf4j-simple
• version is 1.4.3
• flat is off
• destination jars are under ./foo with repository structures.
• you will be get two kind of artifacts, because slf4j-simple depends slf4j-api.

java -Dproxy=http://proxy.example.com:8080 -Drepository=http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/, -jar mvnhack-0.0.2.jar commons-httpclient 2.0.2

this case, use HTTP proxy access to remote repositories and use addtional repository.

dependencies.yml example:

flatten : true
destination : ./lib
proxy : http://proxy.example.com:8080
http.nonProxyHosts : localhost

repositories :
  - http://repository.codehaus.org/
  - http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public

dependencies :
  - org.yaml snakeyaml 1.8

this case

override 4 parameters.

• flatten override flat.
• destination override dest.
• proxy and http.nonProxyHosts override JVM environment

and use 2 external repositories.

and define dependency.

dependencies are whitespace separated string sequence contains 2 or 3 value like basic usage.

you want to know any other yaml syntax. read YAML_syntax

this software under Apache License 2.0