This is possible with Maven 2.x (the Maven libraries certainly do it
already) - what will be important is ensuring that projects themselves
utilise this functionality.

- Brett

On 11/7/05, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> recently I came into a situation where I suspected a bug in
> servlet-api-2.4.jar. No problem, it seems: This is open source software,
> get the sources, add them to you Eclipse project and start debugging.
>
> It turned out not so easy: For starters, what are the exact sources of
> servlet-api-2.4.jar? Do I need to get a particular version of Tomcat? Do
> I need to checkout a certain svn or cvs tag? I've been losing about 3
> hours to get the debugger up and running. (Of course, it turned out,
> that the bug was on my side, having read the specification wrong.)
>
> My personal conclusion is this: It is a bad thing, that we do not
> distribute the sources together with the jar files. Of course, there are
> cases where the license forbids. But at least for ASL licensed jar
> files, it ought to be absolutely no problem to add the sources to ibiblio.
>
> Additionally, one might request downloads for the source files in order
> to make eclipse:eclipse mount them automatically.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Jochen
>
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