[MJAVADOC-141] regression: Adding "jar" execution to the parent of a multi-module javadoc plugin causes "recursive invocations" error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Assignee: Wendy Smoak
• Reporter: Mike Youngstrom
• Created: 01/Aug/07 11:23
• Updated: 05/Mar/08 20:42
• Resolved: 05/Mar/08 20:42

Description

I have a multimodule project with the javadoc plugin declared in my parent.

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<aggregate>true</aggregate>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-javadocs</id>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

After upgrading to 2.3 and do a build I now get the error:

[WARNING] Removing: jar from forked lifecycle, to prevent recursive invocation.
[INFO] No goals needed for project - skipping

Which then skips the processing of that module and later gives me dependency errors because previous dependencies were not compiled.

If I remove jar processing from my plugin definition everything works fine except no javadoc jars are created.

Issue Links

• depends upon: MJAVADOC-137 javadoc:javadoc always runs as "aggregator"