How can I disable the Maven Javadoc plugin from the command line?
The Javadoc generation can be skipped by setting the property maven.javadoc.skip to true [1], i.e.
-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true(and not false)
It seems, that the simple way
-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=truedoes not work with the release-plugin. in this case you have to pass the parameter as an "argument"
mvn release:perform -Darguments="-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true"
You can use the maven.javadoc.skip property to skip execution of the plugin, going by the Mojo's javadoc. You can specify the value as a Maven property:
<properties> <maven.javadoc.skip>true</maven.javadoc.skip></properties>or as a command-line argument: -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true, to skip generation of the Javadocs.