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Maven and Eclipse code completion & suggestions

schipmolder — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 15:32:03 GMT

Hi,With the old SDK I used to configure Eclipse so it knew where the sources were and therefor it could provide code completion and other features like that.Now that I changed to SDK 2 with Maven I can't get this to work at all any more.Can someone point me in the right direction how to get this wor

Re: Maven and Eclipse code completion & suggestions

sujaypillai — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 10:54:52 GMT

In Eclipse goto Window > Preferences > Maven and checking the "Download Artifact Sources" and "Download Artifact JavaDoc" options as shown in the attached screenshot.

Once done then right click on your project and select "Maven > Update Project …" which will cause your source jars to download. Wait for the download to complete and then verify.

Re: Maven and Eclipse code completion & suggestions

schipmolder — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:37:59 GMT

Thanks a lot Sujay, I've been looking everywhere for that but am clearly not an Eclipse expert (yet).