title: How to download sources for an specific JAR dependency of a Maven project
body: <p>I want to do this because when I try to download the sources for a dependency with Eclipse it just does nothing and I want to know what's going on.</p>
  
  <p>I read some posts and articles:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2059431/get-source-jars-from-maven-repository">Get source JARs from Maven repository</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11361331/how-to-download-sources-for-a-jar-with-maven">How to download sources for a jar with Maven?</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://tedwise.com/2010/01/27/maven-micro-tip-get-sources-and-javadocs/" rel="noreferrer">http://tedwise.com/2010/01/27/maven-micro-tip-get-sources-and-javadocs/</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But none of these shows how to do this for a single dependency..</p>
  
  <p>If I do it for all the dependecies in my project it may take a while and it is not what I want.</p>
  
  <p>I want to execute a command like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mvn dependency:sources
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But applied to only one of the project dependencies.</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible?</p>