Maven Micro-Tip: Get sources and Javadocs When you’re using Maven in an IDE you often find the need for your IDE to resolve source code and Javadocs for your library dependencies. There’s an easy way to accomplish that goal. mvn dependency:sources mvn dependency:resolve -Dclassifier=javadoc The first command will attempt to download source code for each … Read more
The best solution I’ve been able to find consists of these steps: Create a branch called mvn-repo to host your maven artifacts. Use the github site-maven-plugin to push your artifacts to github. Configure maven to use your remote mvn-repo as a maven repository. There are several benefits to using this approach: Maven artifacts are kept … Read more
How do I find a repository (if any) that contains this artifact? Unfortunately due the binary license there is no public repository with the Oracle Driver JAR. This happens with many dependencies but is not Maven’s fault. If you happen to find a public repository containing the JAR you can be sure that is illegal. … Read more
How to add local jar files to a Maven project?