Migrate a report created with Makefile into a Maven site report

Question

I am quite new to maven but asked to move my current report which is created by a Makefile in a subdirectory via make all into a mvn site report.

I put all my non-java stuff for my report into a legacy-report directory. So the current tree looks roughly like this:

pom.xml
legacy-report/
    Makefile
    www/           # <<< created by 'make all'
       index.html 
subtree-1/
    pom.xml
    src/
subtree-2/
    pom.xml
    src/

So my questions to enable mvn site for my legary-report are

• What maven (reporting) plugin should I use?
• How should I change the directory layout?
• How do I integrate that into the main pom.xml?
• Do I need a pom.xml in my legacy-reporting dir, what does it look like (roughly)?

Answer 1

So after clearing what you are really talking about you should take a look here for the plugin:

http://graphviz-maven-plugin.bryon.us/index.html

Which will give you the opportunity to create graphivz graphics via Maven. The question is if there is a way to create an index.html of it.