Maven not downloading the dependencies of jar which is mentioned as a dependency

Question

I have one maven dependency and which i mentioned in POM.xml of the project. The dependency jar dependent on few other jars. How can we make Maven download the chain of dependencies?

Where are Gradle downloads all the dependents for the jar.

Help will be greatly appriciated.

Thanks,

Pradeep

Answer 1

In order to download the dependencies, you can execute

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

After running it you will get all downloaded dependencies located under target/dependency folder