Maven Jdeps Plugin is a plugin provided by Maven to intend to implement the dependency analysis provided by Java Jdeps. This tag might be coupled with Jdeps for the same reason.
The Maven JDeps Plugin uses the jdeps tool to analyze classes for internal API calls as stated in the Java Dependency Analysis Tool.
Note: The jdeps tool is available since JDK8.
The JDeps Plugin has 2 goals:
jdeps:jdkinternals
checks if main classes depend on internal JDK classes.jdeps:test-jdkinternals
checks if test classes depend on internal JDK classes.