Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Report? Description
dependency:analyze No Analyzes the dependencies of this project and determines which are: used and declared; used and undeclared; unused and declared. This goal is intended to be used standalone, thus it always executes the test-compile phase - use the dependency:analyze-only goal instead when participating in the build lifecycle.
dependency:analyze-dep-mgt No This mojo looks at the dependencies after final resolution and looks for mismatches in your dependencyManagement section. In versions of maven prior to 2.0.6, it was possible to inherit versions that didn't match your dependencyManagement. See MNG-1577 for more info. This mojo is also usefull for just detecting projects that override the dependencyManagement directly. Set ignoreDirect to false to detect these otherwise normal conditions.
dependency:analyze-only No Analyzes the dependencies of this project and determines which are: used and declared; used and undeclared; unused and declared. This goal is intended to be used in the build lifecycle, thus it assumes that the test-compile phase has been executed - use the dependency:analyze goal instead when running standalone.
dependency:analyze-report Yes Analyzes the dependencies of this project and produces a report that summarises which are: used and declared; used and undeclared; unused and declared.
dependency:build-classpath No This goal will output a classpath string of dependencies from the local repository to a file or log.
dependency:copy No Goal that copies a list of artifacts from the repository to defined locations.
dependency:copy-dependencies No Goal that copies the project dependencies from the repository to a defined location.
dependency:get No Downloads a single artifact transitively from a specified remote repository.
dependency:go-offline No Goal that resolves all project dependencies, including plugins and reports and their dependencies.
dependency:help No Display help information on maven-dependency-plugin.
Call 
 mvn dependency:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>
to display parameter details.
dependency:list No Displays the list of dependencies for this project.
dependency:purge-local-repository No Remove the project dependencies from the local repository, and optionally re-resolve them.
dependency:resolve No Goal that resolves the project dependencies from the repository.
dependency:resolve-plugins No Goal that resolves all project plugins and reports and their dependencies.
dependency:sources No Goal that resolves the project source dependencies from the repository.
dependency:tree No Displays the dependency tree for this project.
dependency:unpack No Goal that retrieves a list of artifacts from the repository and unpacks them in a defined location.
dependency:unpack-dependencies No Goal that unpacks the project dependencies from the repository to a defined location.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 2.0.3
JDK 1.4
Memory No minimum requirement.
Disk Space No minimum requirement.

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.1</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.1</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
  <!-- To use the report goals in your POM or parent POM -->
  <reporting>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.1</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </reporting>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"