We are pleased to announce the Maven JDepend Plugin 1.6 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/jdepend/

JDepend traverses Java class file directories and generates design quality 
metrics for each Java package. JDepend allows you to automatically measure the 
quality of a design in terms of its extensibility, reusability, and 
maintainability to manage package dependencies effectively. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o New property maven.jdepend.propertiesto specify a custom jdepend.properties 
  file. Fixes MPJDEPEND-2. 
o New maven.jdepend.dirsand maven.jdepend.componentsproperties. 

  Changes:

o Upgrade to JDepend 2.9.1. Fixes MPJDEPEND-6. 
o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them 
  between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : xercesImpl v 
  2.4.0 -> v2.6.2 xml-apis v 1.0.b2 -> xmlParserAPIs v2.6.2 Fixes 
  MAVEN-1712.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-jdepend-plugin
  -Dversion=1.6

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-jdepend-plugin-1.6.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven JDepend Plugin development team