Why my Maven project automatic generate apidoc in target folder? - maven

Question

I didn't configurated maven-javadoc-plugin in my maven project pom.xml file,but when I run mvn install command,then generate apidoc?
configuration of pom.xml as follow :
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.security.oauth</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-oauth-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.3.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<build>
<finalName>webcnmobile</finalName>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<!-- web.xml is not mandatory since JavaEE 5 -->
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
<testResources>
<testResource>
<directory>src/test/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</testResource>
</testResources>
</build>
the spring-security-oauth-parent pom.xml see here

Answer 1

The javadoc plugin is configured in the parent pom that you are referencing (spring-security-oauth-parent). This means that you inherit this configuration and it automatically gets applied to your project.
The configuration in the parent pom is as follows:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>javadoc</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
This is then being applied to your project and hence you are getting javadoc generated.