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Whenever you need to download sources or javadocs you can supply maven with the option keys bellow to do so:

To download sources:

mvn [goal] -DdownloadSources=true

so for example for IDEA project setup you would do: mvn idea:idea -DdownloadSources=true

To download javadocs:

mvn [goal] -DdownloadJavadocs=true

Hope this helps...