com.googlecode.maven-download-plugin:download-maven-plugin 1.5.1

This is a plugin meant to help maven user to download different files on different protocol in part of maven build. For the first implementation, there will only be a goal that will help downloading a maven artifact from the command line. Future version of the plugin could include web download, ftp download, scp download and so on.

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.googlecode.maven-download-plugin</groupId>
    <artifactId>download-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.1</version>
</plugin>