The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JDeps Plugin, version 3.0.0 The JDeps Plugin uses the jdeps tool to analyze classes for internal API calls. For more information about the standard jdeps tool, please refer to Java+Dependency+Analysis+Tool. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jdeps-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jdeps-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0</version> </plugin> You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jdeps-plugin/download.cgi This is the first release of this plugin. Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team