Maven 2 & 3

The "How do I create documentation?" part of the "Maven Gettting Started Guide" features an invalid example

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0.5
  • Component/s: Documentation: Guides
  • Labels:
    None
  • Complexity:
    Intermediate
  • Number of attachments :
    0

Description

The guide gives earlier the following example of a simple project creation :

mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app

Afterwards it gives the following example under "How do I create documentation?":

"To get you jump started with Maven's documentation system you can use the archetype mechanism to generate a site for you without your existing project using the following command:

mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-site
"

When executed on the same top level where the first project is created, Maven 2 complains

my-app already exists - please run from a clean directory

When executed in the my-app directory the generated directory is different from the one presented.

A possible solution could be to replace the text under "How do I create documentation?" with (other artifactId and some other changes):

""
To get you jump started with Maven's documentation system you can use the archetype mechanism to generate a site for you without your existing project using the following command :

mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app-site -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-site

If you take a look in your directory structure it should look like the following:

my-app-site

– pom.xml
`-- src
`-- site
– apt
  – format.apt
`-- index.apt
– fml
`-- faq.fml
– fr
  – apt
    – format.apt
  `-- index.apt
  – fml
  `-- faq.fml
`-- xdoc
`-- xdoc.xml
– site.xml
– site_fr.xml
`-- xdoc
`-- xdoc.xml

""

Br,

Timo Westkämper.

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