Maven Quick Reference Card

I use normally the Content Assist in M2Eclipse Plugin to enter the maven commands, but if you use your own xml editor, a new Maven Quick Reference Card directly from Apache makes the life much easier. it contains the most basic items.

http://maven.apache.org/guides/MavenQuickReferenceCard.pdf

hope you enjoy using it.

Download source files for maven dependencies

if you use eclipse plugin:

mvn eclipse:eclipse -Declipse.downloadSources=true

or this one for downloading javadocs

mvn eclipse:eclipse -Declipse.downloadJavaDocs=true

another way to download source files for maven dependencies is:

mvn dependency:sources