Maven – Always download sources and javadocs

Question

Is there a way I can configure maven to always download sources and javadocs? Specifying -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true everytime (which usually goes along with running mvn compile twice because I forgot the first time) becomes rather tedious.

Answer 1

On NetBeans : open your project explorer->Dependencies->[file.jar] rightclick->Download Javadoc

Answer 2

Open your settings.xml file ~/.m2/settings.xml (create it if it doesn't exist). Add a section with the properties added. Then make sure the activeProfiles includes the new profile.

<settings>

   <!-- ... other settings here ... -->

    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>downloadSources</id>
            <properties>
                <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
                <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
            </properties>
        </profile>
    </profiles>

    <activeProfiles>
        <activeProfile>downloadSources</activeProfile>
    </activeProfiles>
</settings>

Answer 3

In my case the "settings.xml" solution didn't work so I use this command in order to download all the sources:

mvn dependency:sources

You also can use it with other maven commands, for example:

mvn clean install dependency:sources -Dmaven.test.skip=true

To download all documentation, use the following command:

mvn dependency:resolve -Dclassifier=javadoc

Answer 4

I think it can be done per plugin. See this chapter from the Maven book.

You might be able to configure the dependency plugin to download sources (even though I haven't tried it myself :-).

Answer 5

Just consolidating and prepared the single command to address source and docs download...

mvn dependency:sources dependency:resolve -Dclassifier=javadoc

Answer 6

Answer for people from Google

In Eclipse you can automatically download javadoc and sources.

To do that, right click on the project and use

• Maven -> Download JavaDoc
• Maven -> Download Sources