Excluding dependencies in Maven's dependency plugin

Question

In order to speed up my build process, which relies in Docker , I want to generate an image that contains all the maven dependencies already downloaded for my project. For this, I am using maven dependency plugin, invoking the goal dependency:resolve .

My maven project contain two modules ( A and B ) and B depends on A in order for the build to succeed. This means that when I invoke dependency:resolve goal, the process fails when it gets to the module B that depends on A , which has not been built yet (I use -SNAPSHOT versions in the pom.xml for my project).

I have tried excluding this dependency, but I cannot find a way to make it work. How can this be done?

Answer 1

According to the Maven dependency plugin docs you can use additional parameters including excludeArtifactIds.

excludeArtifactIds
Comma separated list of Artifact names to exclude.
Type: java.lang.String
Since: 2.0
Required: No
User Property: excludeArtifactIds

This should help to achieve your goal without messing up your regular build process.