[MJAVADOC-376] please add property 'maven.javadoc.classifier'

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.10
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: ryenus
• Created: 17/Sep/13 00:43
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 24/Sep/13 06:04

Description

We need an easier way to customize the name of the generated javadoc jar file.

• For maven-jar-plugin, there's a classifier attribute.
• For maven-source-plugin, it's even better, there's a maven.source.classifier property

But for maven-javadoc-plugin, there's no chance to customize, the classifier is hardcoded to "javadoc", making it very hard to customize the file name of the generated javadoc jar, which is needed when a classifier is needed to differentiate an artifact for multiple jdk vesions.

By adding support for the maven.javadoc.classifier property, it would be much more straightforward and consistent.

Thanks