Some time ago I've started a maven-storyteller-plugin (a version can be found here: https://github.com/highsource/storyteller-maven-plugin https://github.com/hi

Some time ago I've started a maven-storyteller-plugin (a version can be found here: https://github.com/highsource/storyteller-maven-plugin https://github.com/highsource/storyteller-maven-plugin). This plugin was intended to solve a simple task: given a Maven project, which dependencies do you really need and which not? What can (or should) you remove or exclude? maven-storyteller-pluging analyzed the dependency structure of the project (JARs), dependencies of classes, build a large graph of what-needs-what and then could conclude, which dependencies you really need and which not. I also used graphviz for vizualization. I still thing this would be a handy tool but never had time to finish and release the plugin.