Introduction

mvnhack is executable jar with no dependency.

mvnhack can download libraries from maven2 repositories without maven2.

download mvnhack here

Requirements

JavaSE 6(tested by 1.6.0_17) or more

Usage

java -jar mvnhack.jar [groupId] [artifactId] [version] flat=[on/off] dest=[path]

• groupId
• if groupId and artifactId has same id, you skip this.
• artifactId
• target library's artifactId.
• version
• target library's version
• flat
• default is on.
• if you want to get own your local repository only. switch to off.
• dest
• destination directry.
• default is execution directory.

Yaml based dependencies

java -jar mvnhack.jar [yml]

• yaml
• get libraries based on yaml. skip this and current dir contains dependencies.yml then use that file.

More Options

VM Arguments

• proxy
• Proxy URL. auto detect HTTP or SOCKS proxy.
• cf. Networking Properties
• repository
• comma separated maven2 remote/local additional repository URLs.

Implicit Repositories

• if execution directory has directory that name is repository, use as local repository.
• if directory of user.home has m2/repository, use it.
• maven central repository

Examples

java -jar mvnhack-0.0.2.jar commons-httpclient 2.0.2

you get commons-httpclient-2.0.2.jar ,commons-logging-1.0.3.jar and some source.jars into execution directory.

in this case,

• groupId is skipped
• artifactId is commons-httpclient
• version is 2.0.2
• you will be get two kind of artifacts, because commons-httpclient depends commons-logging.

java -jar mvnhack-0.0.2.jar org.slf4j slf4j-simple 1.4.3 flat=off dest=./foo

you get slf4j-simple-1.4.3.jar ,slf4j-api-1.4.3.jar and some source.jars into execution directory.

in this case,

• groupId is org.slf4j
• artifactId is slf4j-simple
• version is 1.4.3
• flat is off
• destination jars are under ./foo with repository structures.
• you will be get two kind of artifacts, because slf4j-simple depends slf4j-api.

java -Dproxy=http://proxy.example.com:8080 -Drepository=http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/, -jar mvnhack-0.0.2.jar commons-httpclient 2.0.2

this case, use HTTP proxy access to remote repositories and use addtional repository.

dependencies.yml example.

flatten : true
destination : ./lib
proxy : http://proxy.example.com:8080
http.nonProxyHosts : localhost

repositories :
  - http://repository.codehaus.org/
  - https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/

dependencies :
  - org.yaml snakeyaml 1.8

this case, override 4 parameters.

• flatten override flat.
• destination override dest.
• proxy and http.nonProxyHosts override JVM environment

and define dependency.

dependencies are whitespace separated string sequence contains 2 or 3 value like base usage.

you want to know any other yaml syntax. read YAML_syntax