Feature Request - Javadoc linking to dependencies.

[Peter Donald <pe...@realityforge.org>]

Hi,

Currently when building cross-linking javadocs you have to specify a property 
such as 

maven.javadoc.links = \
        http://avalon.apache.org/api/, \
        http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/ \
        ......

It is a bit of a PITA to do for all your dependencies. However I was thinking 
that it may be possible to "mine" these links out of the dependencies - at 
least in the case of reactor based builds.  Basically you get the ${pom.url} 
and append "/apidocs" to get a list of all the URLs for javadoc linking. And 
if a POMs are going to be uploaded/downloaded with dependencies (I assume you 
are using them as a library descriptor in future?) then it could be automated 
with all dependencies.

Thoughts?

-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald
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