Maven compile a source jar dependency

Question

Let\'s say I have a project that uses a dependency that can be found in the Maven repository. However, lets also say that the jar file that will be downloaded is NOT in a format

Answer 1

You could do the following:

1. Use maven dependency plugin's unpack goal and place the contents of the dependency into a folder
2. Use build-helper-maven-plugin's add-source goal to add this folder as a source folder

Here is some code snippet...

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-dependency-plugin
  2.2
  
    
      unpack
      process-sources
      
        unpack
      
      
        
          
            my.group
            my.artifact
            my.artifact.version
            sources
            false
            ${project.build.directory}/my.artifact
          
        
      
    
  


  org.codehaus.mojo
  build-helper-maven-plugin
  1.5
  
    
      add-source
      generate-sources
      
        add-source
      
      
        
          ${project.build.directory}/my.artifact.source