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It's very important commons to be able to build against Java 1.3 even now maven requires 1.4. Good 1.3 builds using 1.4 is tricky. Difficult to solve this one.
A: (BrettPorter looking into this)
IDE Friendly Source And Javadoc Jars
Modern IDEs can associate javadoc and source jars with the binaries. We haven't distributed these in the past but doing so would make many folks very happy.
A: (Maven2: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/descriptor.html - a description of what the maven2 standard distributions look like)