Maven Download Plugin

Overview

The idea of the Maven Download Plugin is that it sometimes it happens that you need to download any kind of files or archives from a given URL and unpack the archives.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004

Issue Tracker

The Issue Tracker

Status

TODOs

Usage

The first and simplest usage is to configure the Maven Download Plugin

<plugin>
  <groupId>com.soebes.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-download-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>0.1</version>
  <configuration>
    <url>http://archive.apache.org/dist/hadoop/common/hadoop-0.21.0/hadoop-0.21.0.tar.gz</url>
    <downloadDirectory>${project.build.directory}/downloads/</downloadDirectory>
    <unpackDirecotry>${project.build.directory}/installations/</unpackDirecotry>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

Settings Configuration

Examples