How do I track plugin dependencies in maven2 ?

Question

I am trying to locate an evil plugin that includes a stoneage version of a certain jar file. How do I do that ?

Answer 1

also, mvn -X will spit out all kinds of info, i believe it includes dependency versions.

Answer 2

mvn dependency:tree - shows you a tree of all dependencies including transitive dependencies

Answer 3

There is a more detailed answer here, including how to filter the dependency tree to just see the results you're interested in.