David Newton wrote:If you do anything involving compilation it'll download the jars.
Well, it's a little more complicated than that, since there are more scopes than just just "compile", but that will cover the most common case.
The jars are cached in the MAVEN_HOME/repository directory.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
