Embedder for normal application use?

[Ravi Luthra <RL...@axolotl.com>]

Does anyone have any code that demonstrates using the MavenEmbedder to 
read the classpath for /META-INF/maven/path/to/pom.xml to expand all 
dependencies, download if necessary and modify the classpath such that an 
application can run without copying Jars everywhere. In other words, I 
want to keep the Jars in the user's .m2 folder and still run an 
application from anywhere.

I don't know if this is possible, but it would be useful. An even more 
useful one would be a hard-coded class to copy and paste in a project that 
does some initial loading of the standard maven jars -then once it gets 
enough maven, do the rest of the Pom processing. So in other words if I 
was handed a Jar as an application, it would automatically install Maven2, 
download Maven2 to the local repository, then process the internal POM of 
that original jar, such that all dependencies get added to the classpath, 
and as a final step, run some psvm method specified "somewhere".

Maybe I'm talking about Maven v3, but this would be cool.