private Set<Artifact> processTransientDependencies(Dependency dependency, boolean sharedLibraries) throws MojoExecutionException { try { final Set<Artifact> artifacts = new LinkedHashSet<Artifact>(); final CollectRequest collectRequest = new CollectRequest(); collectRequest.setRoot(dependency); collectRequest.setRepositories(projectRepos); final DependencyNode node = repoSystem.collectDependencies(repoSession, collectRequest).getRoot(); Collection<String> exclusionPatterns = new ArrayList<String>(); if (dependency.getExclusions() != null && !dependency.getExclusions().isEmpty()) { for (Exclusion exclusion : dependency.getExclusions()) { exclusionPatterns.add(exclusion.getGroupId() + ":" + exclusion.getArtifactId()); } } final DependencyRequest dependencyRequest = new DependencyRequest( node, new AndDependencyFilter( new ExclusionsDependencyFilter(exclusionPatterns), new AndDependencyFilter( new ScopeDependencyFilter( Arrays.asList("compile", "runtime"), Arrays.asList("test")), // Also exclude any optional dependencies new DependencyFilter() { @Override public boolean accept( DependencyNode dependencyNode, List<DependencyNode> dependencyNodes) { return !dependencyNode.getDependency().isOptional(); } }))); repoSystem.resolveDependencies(repoSession, dependencyRequest); PreorderNodeListGenerator nlg = new PreorderNodeListGenerator(); node.accept(nlg); final List<Dependency> dependencies = nlg.getDependencies(false); for (Dependency dep : dependencies) { final org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact depAetherArtifact = dep.getArtifact(); if (isNativeLibrary(sharedLibraries, depAetherArtifact.getExtension())) { final Artifact mavenArtifact = artifactFactory.createDependencyArtifact( depAetherArtifact.getGroupId(), depAetherArtifact.getArtifactId(), VersionRange.createFromVersion(depAetherArtifact.getVersion()), depAetherArtifact.getExtension(), depAetherArtifact.getClassifier(), dep.getScope()); mavenArtifact.setFile(depAetherArtifact.getFile()); artifacts.add(mavenArtifact); } } return artifacts; } catch (Exception e) { throw new MojoExecutionException("Error while processing transient dependencies", e); } }