From the Maven Eclipse Plugin FAQ
The following example shows how to do
this in the command-line:mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true
or in your pom.xml:
<project> [...] <build> [...] <plugins> [...] <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <downloadSources>true</downloadSources> <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs> </configuration> </plugin> [...] </plugins> [...] </build> [...] </project>