[jira] Commented: (MJAVADOC-33) Provide new javadoc:aggregate goal to perform javadoc operation on project and subprojects.

["Michael Neale (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAVADOC-33?page=comments#action_56523 ] 

Michael Neale commented on MJAVADOC-33:
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Yeah this would be a great feature, much needed for large projects.

> Provide new javadoc:aggregate goal to perform javadoc operation on project and subprojects.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: MJAVADOC-33
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAVADOC-33
>      Project: Maven 2.x Javadoc Plugin
>         Type: Improvement

>     Reporter: John Allen
>     Priority: Minor

>
>
> Provide new javadoc:aggregate goal to perform javadoc operation on a project and its subprojects, idea being that aggregate pulls together the classpath and sourcepath for all the project and subprojects and then churns out normal javadoc.
> i.e. projects:-
> /root/
> /root/a/src/...
> /root/a/b/src/...
> /root/a/b/c/src/...
> /root/a/d/src/...
> /root/a/e/src/...
> @ /root/a-> m2 javadoc:aggregate
> generates javadoc in /root/a/target/javadoc for src contained within projects a, b, c, d, and e.
> Note, javadoc does not currently provide support for this kind of aggregation and so people have traditionally written their own specialised tasks/scripts (in ant land say) to handle it. sun do refer to the idea of an incremental build in their FAQ which they say they are considering for the future (fat chance) (http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/faq/#incrementalbuild) but that is about generating aggregate docs from already existing javadocs. 

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