In grape there is a nice way to download any artifact to repo directly, just calling something like
grape install org.apache.derby derby 10.5.3.0
As far as I understand, maven install:install
goal requires pom.xml
file, and maven install:install-file
requires local file which you are pointing to and which you actually want to place in local repo.
Is there is any way to install any artifact to maven repo directly, without creating maven project and declaring dependency in pom.xml?
UPD: I guess the search is over. We should use dependency:get
goal.