Maven is an amazing piece of software, despite all the criticism it has endured it is fascinating to me. However there is one short line that has made life so much easier for me:
mvn -Declipse.downloadSources=true
This tells maven to download all associated sources of jar files in the pom.xml. Amazing, how much easier it is to set up a project with proper debugging sources etc. There is even a cool eclipse integration available over at codehaus.org.
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