Yes, please raise a Jira issue - we'll figure out where to fix this - ideas welcome of course. But we should definitely not ignore any failure - just, maybe, allow the metadata emptiness.
Cheers, g On 08/01/06, Sasvata Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Maven2 multi-project build, configured at the parent POM to invoke > a bunch of plugins to generate meta-data (some XDoclet2 based, others > directly QDox based). A couple of projects do not have any source code, but > instead provide webapp source, config files etc. When XDoclet2 is run on > those projects, XDoclet fails with the following message: > > [INFO] XDoclet plugin failed > > Metadata was empty. Got metadata from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Obviously, one solution is to place a dummy Java class, and that works. > Or, I could define the plugin in the individual project POMs and not in the > parent POM, and only where it was needed. But of the > 100 projects, only > two do not need the plugin, all the others do, that is a lot of typing (and > duplication of dependencies, due to an open Maven2 plugin dependency > inheritance bug). > > It would be nice if there was some "ignore failure" option in either > XDoclet2 or the xdoclet2-maven2-plugin. > > Should I open a JIRA issue for this? And, for the core or the plugin? > > Thanks, > Shash >
