Please add a skip property to skip javadoc generation in child modules. If the javadoc plugin is configured (with aggregation) in an multimodule project at a parent level, javadoc will be produced for each child module. The only way I know to avoid this behaviour is to exclude the provided packages of the child module in the plugin configuration of the parent. It would be better to configure the javadoc plugin for the child module with <skip>true</skip>, like e.g. the eclipse or pmd plugin.