How to Access Project Dependencies in Maven Plugin

I needed to generate a shell script that starts a java process. The shell scripts had to include classpath to all dependencies defined in pom.xml. I decided to write a maven plugin to perform this task. The simplest way to access dependencies in a maven plugin is to define a MavenProject property:

    /**
    * The Maven project object
    *
    * @parameter expression="${project}"
    */
   private MavenProject project;

You can access project dependencies by calling: project.getArtifacts()