This plugin provide some help with Maven: see the goals list.
Notice: This plugin is deprecated in favor of plexus-component-metadata.
A mojo will generate a component descriptor file.
The component descriptor will contains all component defined with javadoc tags in your sources.
Add this plugin (Automatically executes within the lifecycle phase: process-sources) as this :
<plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId> <artifactId>plexus-maven-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>descriptor</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin>