If I didn't misunderstand the situation, the poster has a runtime
system with a bunch of jars. Thus, no poms.
/Anders
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:52, Barrie Treloar<
baerrach@...> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Singhal, Pulkit<
pulkit.singhal@...> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wanted to know if maven can be used to fetch source code for existing jars on a system?
>> Can I simply point maven to a jar on my system and expect it to do its best to fetch the source code for the correct version according to my jar from its global repository?
>> Can I do this via an eclipse plugin?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> If you have your dependencies declared correctly in a pom you can use
> mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true
>
> to download both the source jar and the javadoc jar (you may need the
> javadoc if the source does not exist)
>
> If you happen to also be using eclipse as your IDE then everything is
> all setup and ready for importing your projects.
>
> If not, you can find the -sources and -javadoc jars in the same
> directory as the base jar in your local m2 repository.
>
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