I can now see that I was using the wrong -DgroupId argument but it does not work for me. I am not a maven expert (yet;-).
I do: maven -DartifactId=maven-findbugs-plugin -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -DgroupId=maven-plugins plugin:download Which gives me: __ __ | \/ |__ _Apache__ ___ | |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~ |_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT plugin:download: [echo] repo is 'http://maven-plugins.sf.net' [echo] Plugin downloaded, removing other versions [delete] Deleting 11 files from C:\Documents and Settings\ggregory\.maven\plugins [delete] Deleted 5 directories from C:\Documents and Settings\ggregory\.maven\plugins BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 4 seconds Finished at: Mon Feb 16 21:38:57 PST 2004 Then, when I run the reports the maven site:generate goal I get: __ __ | \/ |__ _Apache__ ___ | |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~ |_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT Attempting to download findbugs-0.6.5.jar. WARNING: Failed to download findbugs-0.6.5.jar. Attempting to download findbugs-ant-0.6.5.jar. WARNING: Failed to download findbugs-ant-0.6.5.jar. Attempting to download findbugs-coreplugin-0.6.5.jar. WARNING: Failed to download findbugs-coreplugin-0.6.5.jar. Attempting to download findbugs-bcel-0.6.5.jar. WARNING: Failed to download findbugs-bcel-0.6.5.jar. Attempting to download dom4j-1.4.jar. WARNING: Failed to download dom4j-1.4.jar. BUILD FAILED File...... file:/C:/Documents and Settings/ggregory/.maven/plugins/maven-xdoc-plugin-1.4/ Element... attainGoal Line...... 575 Column.... 48 The build cannot continue because of the following unsatisfied dependencies: findbugs-0.6.5.jar (try downloading from http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/bugs/) findbugs-ant-0.6.5.jar (try downloading from http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/bugs/) findbugs-coreplugin-0.6.5.jar (try downloading from http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/bugs/) findbugs-bcel-0.6.5.jar (try downloading from http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/bugs/) dom4j-1.4.jar (no download url specified) Total time: 5 seconds Finished at: Mon Feb 16 21:36:35 PST 2004 Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 20:18 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: RE: [lang] Using FindBugs Maven plugin? > > Gary Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/02/2004 01:57:49 PM: > > > Dion, > > > > Could you please post to this list when you do fix this? We'd like to > use > > the Maven plug-in with [lang] at least. > > I've posted to the maven-plugins list about the docs fix, made the > documentation changes and have redeployed the site. > > > Is there something other than the docs that needs fixing? > -- > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting