Robert Savage

The Maven External Dependency Plugin (Version 0.4) has been  RELEASED and is now available on  Maven Central!

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/savage7/maven/plugins/maven-external-dependency-plugin/0.4/

A few features have been added since I first wrote about this project, including extracting artifacts from downloaded ZIP files and validating artifact checksums against the Sonatype Maven repository as a cautionary  measure  to ensure that artifact group ID, artifact ID, version, and checksum do not conflict with some other existing artifact in the public repository.

Please check out the project site for more information:

• Project Site hosted on Google Code
• Plugin Documentation
• Subversion (Source Code)