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Maven-Eclipse Goodies

Normally when I'm running my "mvn eclipse:eclipse" I typically append "-DdownloadSources=true". I stumbled upon a blog that was talking about something unrelated and noticed that you can simply add this to the maven-eclipse-plugin's configuration element.


  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
          <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>


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