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Eclipse M2E does nice job trying to download and attach sources automatically when navigated to a class from a dependency. Most often it works seamlessly and quite fast. In netbeans one must click two buttons manually to do that.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss