[M2] Is there a way to automatically download sources for plugins?

[Szczepan Faber <sz...@gmail.com>]

Is there a way to automatically download sources for plugins?

E.g. When I type 'mvn compile' the maven-compiler-plugin is
automatically downloaded into local repository. Where can I find
sources for that? (Yes, I know I can look at
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/source-repository.html
and checkout...) Can I set maven to download plugins with sources?

Thanks,
Szczepan

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Re: [M2] Is there a way to automatically download sources for plugins?

[Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>]

This will only work if the plugins have sources loaded in the ibiblio
repo. You can check yourself by going to:
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/<group>/.../<artifactId>/<version>/

Plugins are generally under group org.apache.maven.plugins.

You can download source files by adding the following dependency to
your pom.xml:
<dep>
<group>
<art>
<version>
<scope>
<classifier>sources</classifier>
</dep>

You can pull down the javadoc with:
<classifier>javadoc</classifier>

There's probably a better/easier way but this should work, again,
assuming the sources have been uploaded into the repo in the first
place. Otherwise you'll need to pull sources from SVN yourself.

Wayne


On 3/24/06, Szczepan Faber <sz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to automatically download sources for plugins?
>
> E.g. When I type 'mvn compile' the maven-compiler-plugin is
> automatically downloaded into local repository. Where can I find
> sources for that? (Yes, I know I can look at
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/source-repository.html
> and checkout...) Can I set maven to download plugins with sources?
>
> Thanks,
> Szczepan
>
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