Using Maven to download dependencies without mavenising my project - maven

Question

I am looking at using Spring Batch, which seems to mainly be distributed/managed using Maven. I am not a Maven user (I've always got away with using Ant), and don't feel I should need to mavenise my project purely in order to be able to use Spring Batch.
Are there any tools or Maven commands that I can use to download the various dependencies? There are no recent releases of Spring Batch that are marked "with dependencies".
Should I just create a Maven project that uses Spring Batch and then download the dependencies like that and then extract the jars that I need?

Answer 1

Use the maven ant tools or ivy to connect an ant built to the maven dependency/repository system.

Answer 2

Here's what I use. If you put this is in pom.xml, you can run
mvn dependency:copy-dependencies
from a command line and you'll end up with jars in your libs directory.
<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>GuavaExtensions</groupId>
<artifactId>guavaExtensions</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.chuusai</groupId>
<artifactId>shapeless_2.10.0-M3</artifactId>
<version>1.2.2</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>scala-actors</artifactId>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>scala-reflect</artifactId>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>12.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
<groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
<version>4.0</version>
<classifier>sources</classifier>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
<groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
<version>4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.10</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
<artifactId>scalatest_2.10.0-M4</artifactId>
<version>1.9-2.10.0-M4-B2</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>scala-actors</artifactId>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>scala-reflect</artifactId>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-cli</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>./libs</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>