Using Maven 1 Repositories with Maven 2

The wonderful Maven2 Dependency Plugin lets you grab your project's dependent jars and puts them into a local directory. Thanks to Srinath for showing me this.

This grabs all the jars in your dependency list and puts them in target/.../lib.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}/lib</outputDirectory>
<overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
<overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>