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    copied!<p>If I use the maven-dependency-plugin plugin, than I can't use a version range. Also it seems the version of a there defined artifact doesn't get updated though a newer version is in the remote repository.</p> <p>Why is that so?</p> <p>Uses the maven-dependency-plugin some other mechanism than the rest of maven to resolve dependencies? And if that is the case, why?</p> <p><strong>Here a example:</strong></p> <p>I have created a project <em>org.example:org.example.simple.project1:jar</em> and put it in the repository using the versions <em>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, 1.0.0, 1.0.1</em> and <em>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</em></p> <p>I have now configured the dependency plugin in the following way:</p> <pre><code>&lt;plugin&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-dependency-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;executions&gt; &lt;execution&gt; &lt;id&gt;unpack-stuff&lt;id&gt; &lt;phase&gt;initialize&lt;/phase&gt; &lt;goals&gt; &lt;goal&gt;unpack&lt;/goal&gt; &lt;/goals&gt; &lt;configuration&gt; &lt;artifactItems&gt; &lt;artifactItem&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;org.example&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;org.example.simple.project1.&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;[1.0,1.1)&lt;/version&gt; &lt;type&gt;jar&lt;/type&gt; &lt;overWrite&gt;true&lt;/overWrite&gt; &lt;outputDirectory&gt;target/stuff&lt;/outputDirectory&gt; &lt;includes&gt;**/*.*&lt;/includes&gt; &lt;/artifactItem&gt; &lt;/artifactItems&gt; &lt;/configuration&gt; &lt;/execution&gt; &lt;/executions&gt; &lt;/plugin&gt; </code></pre> <p>If the dependency resolution would be the same as in the other dependencies, the version shoud resolve (at least in my opinion) to <strong>1.0.1</strong>.</p> <p>Instead I get the following exception:</p> <pre><code>[ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] version was null for org.example:org.example.simple.project1. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace java.lang.NullPointerException: version was null for org.example:org.example.simple.project1. at org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact.getBaseVersion(DefaultArtifact.java:362) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.layout.DefaultRepositoryLayout.pathOf(DefaultRepositoryLayout.java:47) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepository.pathOf(DefaultArtifactRepository.java:110) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:125) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:74) at org.apache.maven.plugin.dependency.fromConfiguration.AbstractFromConfigurationMojo.getArtifact(AbstractFromConfigurationMojo.java:242) at org.apache.maven.plugin.dependency.fromConfiguration.AbstractFromConfigurationMojo.getProcessedArtifactItems(AbstractFromConfigurationMojo.java:143) at org.apache.maven.plugin.dependency.fromConfiguration.UnpackMojo.getProcessedArtifactItems(UnpackMojo.java:138) at org.apache.maven.plugin.dependency.fromConfiguration.UnpackMojo.execute(UnpackMojo.java:88) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:453) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:559) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:500) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:479) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:331) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:292) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:301) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 4 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Mon Aug 03 17:21:41 CEST 2009 [INFO] Final Memory: 13M/133M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ </code></pre>
 

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