This works fine for me (I've set <properties><downloadSource>true</downloadSource> in my settings.xml)
Many artifacts in maven "central" repo don't have the expected source bundles. One option is to build them yourself from source distribution, and even better propose for upload (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVENUPLOAD) Another option is to contact the developer list and ask them to publish themself the required -sources.jar. This is automatically created by maven during release (if predefine profile is used), so recent maven2-based-builds should all have thoses sources.jars. I'm myself in discution on apache commons dev list to publish sources for archived commons-* Nico. 2008/2/9, Jan Torben Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but shouldn't > > mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true > > download and reference the sources in eclipse? > > > Are the sources normally available for libs in the central repository? I > mean for example log4j, httpunit, xmlbeans... > > > > Does it work for someone here? > > Jan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
