I would like more control over the packages that javadoc uses to generate online documentation

Today the javadoc plugin takes the list of packages to be what is in the POM and it then appends ".*" on the end of pom.package.

In our case we will put "a.b.c" as the package but there are some sub-packages that should not be documented via javadoc. In this case I would like to be able to specify "a.b.c.d,a.b.c.e.f" as the list of packages to document.

I can suggest 2 possible ways to implement this:

1) If pom.package has a comma in it then don't add the ".*"

2) Add a new property for the plugin that overrides the pom.package if, and only if, it exists

Thanks,

Julian Payne