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/lib/plexus-utils" ).exists(); result = result && new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/lib/classworlds" ).exists(); result = result && new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/lib/junit" ).exists(); // verify that the POM dep was included without extracting. result = result && new File( basedir, "target/including-pom-dependency-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/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/lib/plexus-container-default" ).exists(); return result;