Download Snapshot File with Maven from a remote repository

I created a J2EE application. I used continuum to deploy it on a remote repository. Now i want to automatically download the latest SNAPSHOT war file from this remote repository to my local TOMCAT_HOME/webapps. I tried many ideas but no on开发者_运维问答e works. I wanted to use the maven-metadata.xml it contains manyinformation about the project. Any ideas?

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You can try to use Aether. With some minor coding it will do the job for you. If you decide to go this way I can show a real-life example where Aether is used in order to manually download artifacts from Maven repos.

edit: Take a look at jcabi-aether wrapper around Aether.