How to reference javadocs to dependencies in Maven's eclipse plugin when javadoc not attached to dependency

Question

I use Eclipse, Maven, and Java in my development. I use Maven to download dependencies (jar files and javadoc when available) and Maven\'s eclipse plug-in to generate the .p

Answer 1

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:

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        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-eclipse-plugin
        
          true
          true
        
      
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