import java.io.*; boolean result = true; // verify that transitive deps of the POM dep were included. result = result && new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.dir/lib/plexus-utils.jar" ).exists(); result = result && new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.dir/lib/classworlds.jar" ).exists(); result = result && new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.dir/lib/junit.jar" ).exists(); // verify that the POM dep was included without extracting. result = result && new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.dir/lib/plexus-container-default.pom" ).exists(); // verify that the jar associated with the POM dep wasn't included either. result = result && !new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.dir/lib/plexus-container-default.jar" ).exists(); return result;