title: Can I use the path to a Maven dependency as a property?
body: <p>I have a maven dependency in my pom.xml as such:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;com.foo&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;Bar&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.2.3&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I would like to use the system path to the binary as a property (so I can pass it to an external process that is kicked off by maven).  I can do this in an awkward way:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;my.lib&gt;${settings.localRepository}/com/foo/Bar/1.2.3/Bar.jar&lt;/my.lib&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I would really like to use a more standard mechanism, such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;my.lib&gt;${com.foo:Bar:1.2.3}&lt;/my.lib&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I something like that possible?</p>