For lack of better articulation in the subject line, let me explain a bit more in detail as to what I am trying to figure out.
In our organization we find ourselves building projects and distributing them to a heterogeneous set of machines remotely for execution ( such as to dynamicly generated hadoop clusters ). I used to build uber jars using maven shade plugin and distribute that. Or get the dependencies locally using mvn dependency:copy-dependencies locally and copy those libraries to the remote machines. Either way, due to really abysmal internet bandwidth I find it very slow ( yes, how we managed to end up with really crappy bandwidth and high latency in a big city in California is still a mystery to me ). Takes about 10 minutes to upload say a 50MB uber jar. >From what I have noticed the effective pom gets included in the MATA-INF of a jar ( using default package mechanisms ). Now, Is there any way given such a jar file with an embedded pom, to use maven to download all the necessary dependencies. thanks Arun
