Experiences with Maven 3: Generating reports

After installing version 3 of Maven I missed the generation of the documentation site. While the documentation claims no changes to POM files are necessary to use the newer version it doesn't behave the same.

Version 3 accepts the same POM files used with version 2, but the site goal no longer generates any output. This is because of a change in the POM structure. The configuration of reports has moved from a separate <reporting> section to the <build> section:

<build>
  <plugins>
    ...
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>3.0-beta-3</version>
      <configuration>
        <reportPlugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
          </plugin>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.8</version>
            <configuration>
              <quiet>true</quiet>
            </configuration>
          </plugin>
        </reportPlugins>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
    ...
  </plugins>
</build>

To generate the general project information reports you automatically get with Maven 2, add the maven-project-info-reports-plugin.