How to generate javadocs for only some projects in a multiproject?

[Lucas Persson]

Hi I want to generate and release the javadoc (e.g. the javadoc.jar should be a release artefacts just like any other JAR) But only some projects contains public java code that javadoc should be generated for. And if I have for instance 4 projects for which I want to generate javadoc I only want one javadoc.jar in the end with the complete source tree. I really thought that I found the solution to this in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4947215/maven-3-generate-javadoc-for-defined-artifacts but the bug reported in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-291 seem to hinder it. I really do not want to have some relative path from the 'javadoc project' to the projects where the source are in. I have also played around with different combination on <skip> like this in the multiproject   <build>     <plugins>       <plugin>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>         <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>         <inherited>false</inherited>         <configuration>           <skip>false</skip>         </configuration>       </plugin>        </plugins>     <pluginManagement>     <plugins>       <plugin>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>         <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>         <configuration>           <skip>true</skip>         </configuration>       </plugin>        </plugins> And in those subproject that I really want javadoc for added:       <plugin>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>         <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>         <configuration>           <skip>false</skip>         </configuration>       </plugin>    So I then tried to use >includePackageNames> but that does not exists. Only <excludePackageNames> but then I need to exclude like hundred of package names, sigh. /Lucas -- Lucas Persson | Principal Member of Technical Staff Phone: +4684773644 | | | Mobile: +46730946656 Oracle Communications Platform ORACLE Sweden | Folkungagatan 122 | 116 30 Stockholm Oracle Svenska AB, Kronborgsgränd 17, S-164 28 KISTA, reg.no. 556254-6746 Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment