In order to avoid confusion between "Maven module" and "Java module", I
suggest to update documentation for using "Maven sub-project" instead of
"Maven module". However, the <module> XML elements in the POM would be
unchanged for compatibility reason. There is apparently not so many
places in the documentation that need to be updated. The ones that I
found are part of pull request #1625:
https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1625/commits/4bc46b4114396e6025645f3c5dae888f3d386981
Martin