You need verson 1.9.2 of the maven-xdoc-plugin to get it to generate the comments (it was introduced in version 1.9.0, but doesn't work in 1.9.1).
Validator uses this feature and it works well: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/validator/dependencies.html Hopefully maven 2 will be better though - it has "scopes" for depenencies which hopefully it uses to create a better dependency report (I haven't tried it yet) http://maven.apache.org/maven2/dependency-mechanism.html#dependency_scope Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert burrell donkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > (logging uses ant for builds but) i agree that this is a major issue for > > > all projects that use maven. JCL uses maven to generate the > > > documentation which is misleading. > > > > > > does anyone know how to add comments for dependencies? > > > > For Maven 1 it could be solved by setting properties [1] on the > > dependency. This would be something local to commons-logging that would > > not work automatically in other places. > > > > [1] > > http://maven.apache.org/reference/project-descriptor.html#class_Dependency > > thanks :) > > helped me to track down what i was looking for: > > <properties> > <comment>XXX</comment> > </properties> > > can be used to add comments which appear in the dependency report. > > - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
