Maven "Skipping javadoc generation" WHY?

javadoc, maven, maven-2, maven-3, maven-javadoc-plugin

Solution

see the effective pom of your project either on the command line by typing mvn help:effective-pom or through eclipse effective-pom view of your pom. That will give you the true configuration. If the flag is set to true, then:

- are you adding the configuration in an inactive profile? check mvn help:active-profiles

- do you have pom inheritance and inheriting the configuration from the parents? check parent poms

I don't think that changing the version will help you much as the "skip" parameter was available from version 2.5

Problem

I'm working on a maven project and want to generate the most basic of javadocs. This is the plugin I add to my pom.xml ``` <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.8.1</version> <executions> <execution> <id>attach-javadocs</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>jar</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> ``` I then run the goal mvn clean package and after successfully cleaning and packaging my project it says ``` [INFO] --- maven-javadoc-plugin:2.8.1:jar (attach-javadocs) @ project-name --- [INFO] Skipping javadoc generation. ``` I've tried adding the property: ``` <properties> <maven.javadoc.skip>false</maven.javadoc.skip> </properties> ``` And have also tried this in cmd prompt: ``` mvn clean package -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=false ``` No different... Anything I am blatantly missing?

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