Maven remove version from dependency jar - maven

Question

I'd like to know if there is a way to remove version number from maven dependency.
Let's say for my project I'd like to fetch commons-lang3 3.4 using maven dependency plugin:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.4</version>
</dependency>
My pom configuration says, it is fetching dependencies to the ./lib directory inside of my project.
What I would like to achieve is remove on the fly version number from commons-lang3-3.4.jar. It would look like:
./lib/commons-lang3.jar
Question: Is there any way to do such thing?
Specifying finalName won't help here.
<build>
<finalName>${project.name}-testing</finalName>
</build>
Below my existing configuration:
<project>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${dir.javaLibs}</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

To remove the version from copied dependencies, you can use the stripVersion option of the maven-dependency-plugin:
Strip artifact version during copy
Which has default value to false.
Hence, given your existing configuration, here is the change:
<project>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${dir.javaLibs}</outputDirectory>
<!-- new configuration entry below-->
<stripVersion>true</stripVersion>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>