ok
defining profiles to have 2 site runs without same reporting plugins is ok: the 
2 site runs share the same site.xml
what would be an issue would be to require 2 different site.xml files. But from 
your description, you don't need such thing, no?

Regards,

Hervé

Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 20:35:00 Benjamin Damm a écrit :
> Thanks to you and Mr. Boutemy for your replies.  Let me explain a little
> more about what I want to do.
> 
> We have perhaps two dozen maven modules that together provide a collection
> of core services.  Together these modules are an SDK of sorts for clients. 
> I'm trying to create a structure for generated documentation; however
> JavaDoc alone is not enough since we have other artifacts that make up our
> SDK.  Protobuf definitions, WSDL files, REST services, etc.  So, if an
> effort to create reliable documentation is going to produce good results,
> we need a mechanism that can be shared across all these modules and a model
> for how to aggregate the resulting documentation back into one SDK.
> 
> The maven site plugin seems like the perfect structure to base this effort. 
> We can take advantage of the maven build cycle and the parent pom
> structure, we can use skins to create a consistent look and feel, and we
> can use existing and new plugins (e.g. JavaDoc and others) to produce
> "site" artifacts from source.  Controlling the inherited site definition
> gives us a relatively easy way to cross-link module output.
> 
> However, the "site" defaults and related plugins also are useful, so I want
> to retain the ability to generate classic "site" output (e.g. test reports,
> code coverage, javadoc, findbugs).  This output is not appropriate for
> distribution, but it's very useful for us internally.  Hence, my
> investigation of using profiles.  I started by redefining the site plugin's
> configuration in the parent pom within two profiles, so that all the
> sub-modules got access to those profiles without defining them
> individually.
> 
> If this is a maven anti-pattern, then I certainly hear that and respect
> that.  I wonder what other options are available?  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ben
> 
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> Benjamin Damm
> Silver Spring Networks
> +1-650-839-4201
> ________________________________________
> From: Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:37 AM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: Re: Renaming site.xml or using different top-level site.xml for
> site plugin
> 
> In a multimodule project you need to attach the site descriptor of parent
> poms to the reactor.
> 
> Thus the site descriptor you attach will depend on your profile...
> 
> Thus you are in a maven anti-pattern (ie artifacts attached to the reactor
> should not depend on the profiles active at the time)
> 
> You will likely have to find a different way, as I believe the rest if the
> maven developers will agree with me that this is a bad plan, and hence
> there will not be support for trying to solve your actual problem with the
> technique that us giving you thus problem
> 
> HTH
> 
> Stephen
> 
> On Friday, 24 January 2014, Benjamin Damm <bd...@silverspringnet.com> wrote:
> > Hello Mavens,
> > 
> > Is there a way to rename site.xml to something else?  I want to use the
> > site framework to produce two "trees" of sites, each quite distinct from
> > each other because they are based on two different profiles, and I was
> > hoping, two different site.xml from the superpom at the top.
> > 
> > In other words, I'm trying to achieve two trees of sites, each with a
> > different site.xml at the top, but otherwise retaining the same structure
> > (in terms of modules).  I also plan to use profiles to use different
> > site.xml files at the module level; that part works fine already because I
> > can repoint the entire site document structure by using siteDirectory.
> > 
> > It's the site.xml at the very top that's giving me trouble.  No matter
> > what I seem to do, I can only have one site.xml at the top of the module
> > hierarchy.  Does anyone know if there's a way around this limitation?
> > 
> >  Scouring the source code of the site plugin has so far not revealed
> > 
> > anything.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > -Ben
> > 
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