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<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Singhal, Pulkit<[email protected]> 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
