Generate javadoc and publish on confluence

sudhakar6

We use Atlassian on demand stack which include bamboo and Confluence. I am looking for help and suggetions on how I can generate the JavaDoc for our java projects and publish on Conflence.

One of the way I know is generate the javadoc as part of mvn build and attach that as artifacts with every build but that's not the convinent way of using it since user would need to access different url every time and second is they need to dowload this html files locally on their box to see the API help which is definately not the convininent way so could you please suggest some better way of publishing javadocs.

Gary Donovan

For our generated documentation, we have a plan that is executed nightly. All it does is use a script to generate the docs in one job, and then use a seperate script to copy them to an internal web server in another job, overwriting the previous version. Then developers always look in the same spot on the web server for up-to-date documentation.

It's a bit low-tech, but it works perfectly well, and I personally don't see any value in putting generated documentation into Confluence.

In your case, you could add a new stage to your build plan the generates the javadoc using mvn (if that hasn't been done already), and then either copy them to a web server or run a simple web server on your buld box.