How to find the dependencies of a maven plugin goal

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I'm trying to find out where the dependencies are coming from for a particular plugin goal. I know the dependencies exist because Maven downloaded them when I ran the goal for the first time. And they're not (directly) dependencies of my project, because I ran mvn clean install first, and these dependencies weren't downloaded then.

In this specific case, I'm trying to figure out what the dependencies are when I run mvn sonar:sonar, but I expect the answer will be general purpose. For instance, even though I've built this project a number of times, when I ran that goal Maven downloaded a bunch of new jars like maven-antrun-plugin.

Here are things I've tried:

  • mvn dependency:tree shows the dependencies for the project, but not for the plugin goal (it doesn't include anything related to SonarQube in the list).
  • mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.2.0:effective-pom -Dverbose=true also doesn't include anything related to SonarQube.
  • mvn -X sonar:sonar prints out what looks like a dependency graph, but it's missing the jars that Maven downloaded the first time I ran the sonar:sonar goal.
  • mvn -X dependency:resolve-plugins seems to be meant to download the dependencies of plugins, but does not capture the sonar:sonar dependencies. If I clear out my Maven cache, run mvn dependency:resolve-plugins, and then run mvn sonar:sonar, Maven has to download jars.
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2 Answers

Use your IDE to navigate to the POM of the plugin project and then look at the dependency tree.

Or do this manually by copying the plugin POM to your file system and running mvn dependency:tree.

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The dependencies downloaded by maven are generally stored locally on the pc at the address C:\Users\yourUser/.m2 this regardless of your projects and so that you do not have to reload dependencies that you are already using in other projects.

I hope I have understood your question and that my answer is useful to you, greetings.

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