title: Maven "Skipping javadoc generation" WHY?
body: <p>I'm working on a maven project and want to generate the most basic of javadocs. </p>
  
  <p>This is the plugin I add to my pom.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;build&gt;
  &lt;plugins&gt;
      &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-javadoc-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;executions&gt;
              &lt;execution&gt;
                  &lt;id&gt;attach-javadocs&lt;/id&gt;
                  &lt;phase&gt;package&lt;/phase&gt;
                  &lt;goals&gt;
                      &lt;goal&gt;jar&lt;/goal&gt;
                  &lt;/goals&gt;
              &lt;/execution&gt;
          &lt;/executions&gt;
      &lt;/plugin&gt;
  &lt;/plugins&gt;
  &lt;/build&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then run the goal mvn clean package and after successfully cleaning and packaging my project it says </p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] --- maven-javadoc-plugin:2.8.1:jar (attach-javadocs) @ project-name ---
  [INFO] Skipping javadoc generation.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried adding the property:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;maven.javadoc.skip&gt;false&lt;/maven.javadoc.skip&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And have also tried this in cmd prompt:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mvn clean package -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=false
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>No different...</p>
  
  <p>Anything I am blatantly missing?</p>