I am looking for / into a simple way for a stanadl...

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[Nikky]

I am looking for / into a simple way for a stanadlone program to download from maven, parse the pom in a limited manner at least for finding the listed versions and maybe list dependencies and artifacts
does anybody know if such a thing exists already or do i have to construct it from scratch?

[Dominaezzz]

The application or a library to build such an application?

[alex]

mvn dependency:tree ?

[Nikky]

@Dominaezzz a library to do such a thing

[Nikky]

@alex and that does what? as far as i can see i now need to parse just another format, except i also depend on a binary to be installed and that i can call out to shell and record the response

[Nikky]

for now i hacked the minimum required features together by hardcoding paths and parsing the maven-metadata xml