Maven Always download sources and javadocs

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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

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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    lt settings gt       lt  --     other settings here     -- gt        lt profiles gt           lt profile gt               lt id gt downloadSources lt  id gt               lt properties gt                   lt downloadSources gt true lt  downloadSources gt                   lt downloadJavadocs gt true lt  downloadJavadocs gt               lt  properties gt           lt  profile gt       lt  profiles gt        lt activeProfiles gt           lt activeProfile gt downloadSources lt  activeProfile gt       lt  activeProfiles gt   lt  settings gt

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In Netbeans  you can instruct Maven to check javadoc on every project open    Tools   Options   Java icon   Maven tab   Dependencies category   Check Javadoc drop down set to Every Project Open   Close and reopen Netbeans and you will see Maven download javadocs in the status bar

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To follow up on the answer from kevinarpe this does both sources and Javadocs        lt build gt           lt plugins gt               lt plugin gt                   lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt maven-dependency-plugin lt  artifactId gt                   lt version gt 3 1 1 lt  version gt                   lt executions gt                       lt execution gt                           lt goals gt                               lt goal gt sources lt  goal gt                               lt goal gt resolve lt  goal gt                           lt  goals gt                       lt  execution gt                   lt  executions gt                   lt configuration gt                       lt classifier gt javadoc lt  classifier gt                   lt  configuration gt               lt  plugin gt           lt  plugins gt       lt  build gt

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I had to use KeyStore to Download the Jars  If you have any Certificate related issues you can use this approach   mvn clean install dependency sources -Dmaven test skip true -Djavax net ssl trustStore  Path To Your KeyStore    If you want to know how to create KeyStores  this is a very good link  Problems using Maven and SSL behind proxy

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For the sources on dependency level   pom xml  you can add     lt classifier gt sources lt  classifier gt

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As  xecaps12 said  the simplest efficient approach is to change your Maven settings file     m2 settings xml  but if it is a default settings for you  you can also set it like that    lt profile gt     lt id gt downloadSources lt  id gt     lt activation gt       lt activeByDefault gt true lt  activeByDefault gt     lt  activation gt     lt properties gt         lt downloadSources gt true lt  downloadSources gt         lt downloadJavadocs gt true lt  downloadJavadocs gt     lt  properties gt   lt  profile gt

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I am using Maven 3 3 3 and cannot get the default profile to work in a user or global settings xml file   As a workaround  you may also add an additional build plugin to your pom xml file    lt properties gt       lt maven-dependency-plugin version gt 2 10 lt  maven-dependency-plugin version gt   lt  properties gt   lt build gt       lt plugins gt           lt  -- Download Java source JARs  -- gt           lt plugin gt               lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt maven-dependency-plugin lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt   maven-dependency-plugin version  lt  version gt               lt executions gt                   lt execution gt                       lt goals gt                           lt goal gt sources lt  goal gt                       lt  goals gt                   lt  execution gt               lt  executions gt           lt  plugin gt       lt  plugins gt   lt  build gt

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Just consolidating and prepared the single command to address source and docs download     mvn dependency sources dependency resolve -Dclassifier javadoc

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Answer for people from Google In Eclipse you can manually download javadoc and sources  To do that  right click on the project and use  Maven - gt  Download JavaDoc Maven - gt  Download Sources

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Not sure  but you should be able to do something by setting a default active profile in your settings xml  See  See http   maven apache org guides introduction introduction-to-profiles html

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Simply modify file mvn  or mvn cmd if in windows  and add whatever command line switches you need  as mentioned by other answers    If you don t want to modify the install files  which I d recommend   create a mymvn  or mymvn cmd  wrapper that invokes the regular mvn with the parameters

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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  -

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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

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On NetBeans    open your project explorer- Dependencies-  file jar  rightclick- Download Javadoc

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