Reporting plugins
Plugins which generate reports, are configured as reports in the POM and run under the site generation
lifecycle.

This plugin consists of several reports that you can run selectively, individually or even run all of them. Please see below for instructions on how to configure your pom.xml to do this.

Run All Reports
To include all Project Info Reports in your project, you must configure your pom.xml. Use “mvn site:site” to generate the configured reports.

project
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org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-project-info-reports-plugin
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Run Selective Reports

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org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-project-info-reports-plugin

dependencies
project-team
mailing-list
cim
issue-tracking
license
scm

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Reporting plugins are configured in the POM as in this example:
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org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-project-info-reports-plugin

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Configuration in the reporting section also applies if plugin goals are invoked individually. The converse is not true– if you configure the plugin inside , that configuration will NOT apply to .

Configuring multiple reports for one plugin using . Each must have a unique . For more information on UMLGraph, see the UMLGraph site and this page.

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org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-javadoc-plugin

uml

gr.spinellis.umlgraph.doclet.UmlGraph

gr.spinellis
UmlGraph
4.4

-views
target/uml
private

javadoc

html

private

javadoc

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Known Plugins That Provide Reports

• Project-Info-Reports – Standard Reports
• Javadoc – Javadoc
• JXR – Source Cross-Reference
• Surefire-Report – Surefire Test Report
• Changes – Changes & JIRA Report
• Taglist – Taglist Report (For TODO, @deprecated, etc.)
• PMD – PMD Report for Source-code analysis

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