Attaching Sources and JavaDoc to Maven Project
One of the features of Maven Dependency Plugin is attachment of sources to a project.
The attachment can be accomplished from the command line without any pom.xml
modification:
The following command downloads and attaches the sources to all dependencies listed in pom.xml
:
mvn dependency:sources
With the optional classifier parameter, you can download and attach a javadoc jar to the project.
mvn dependency:sources -Dclassifier=javadoc
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hmmm, this might be a stupid question, but why anyone would benefit from doing it manually ? I mean Ide does is by itself, and without IDE you don't get any benefit from attachment of javadoc.jar, am I wrong ?
Posted by psychollek on December 22, 2014 at 10:08 AM CET #
I don't know how to tell Idea to download the source/javadoc for a particular library, so that command is perfect when being used with -DincludeGroupIds=...
Posted by Thai on December 26, 2014 at 09:25 AM CET #