[MNG-5113] NullPointerException on javadoc site generation

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.4
• Component/s: Sites & Reporting
• Environment: Archlinux 2.6.36 (x86)
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Christian
• Created: 07/Jun/11 09:08
• Updated: 27/Jul/11 05:36
• Resolved: 27/Jul/11 05:36

Description

Dear codehaus developers,

Today I encountered a pretty serious error, while trying to generate javadocs for my code. This was the first time I added the reporting part to my pom. Site generation worked fine without this part. After I added this part, maven gave me a NullPointerException.
It was very easy for me to reproduce the bug. I created an empty directory and put the following pom there:

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>Test</groupId>
  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <reporting>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artefactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artefactId>
        <version>2.8</version>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </reporting>
</project>

Then I ran:

mvn site

I've attached the debugging output and this example pom to this report.

Best regards,

Chris