Maven: A Developer's Notebook

Customizing Site Reports

Site generation creates a number of useful reports, but depending on your style, you may want to deactivate some of these reports.

How do I do that?

To change the reports generated by Maven's site generation, alter the contents of the reports element in project.xml. Here is a reports element with several available reports activated:

<reports>
  <report>maven-changelog-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-changes-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-checkstyle-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-clover-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-cruisecontrol-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-developer-activity-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-faq-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-file-activity-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-license-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-linkcheck-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-javadoc-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-jdepend-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-jira-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-junit-report-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-jxr-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-pmd-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-simian-plugin</report>
  <report>maven-tasklist-plugin</report>
</reports>

To exclude a report from Maven's site generation, just remove the report's plug-in element from the reports element. A Maven project that does not specify the reports element generates a set of default reports: jdepend, Checkstyle, changes, changelog, developer-activity, file-activity, license, javadoc, jxr, junit, linkcheck, and tasklist. When you add a reports element to your project's project.xml file, you must list ...