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Sometimes you need to connect to internet from your java programs. It’s easy to do via URLConnection. But when you are behind the proxy server, your program doesn’t know how to deal with it. Configuration of proxy server is fairly easy. All you need to do is to setup following system properties:

System.setProperty("http.proxySet", "true");
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "name_of_proxy_server");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "proxy_server_port_number");

If you want to have source files of your project dependencies in local repository, you need to execute following command:
mvn dependency:sources
If you are creating project for Eclipse and want source files to be included to the project, you can run this one:
mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources