Why does maven site:site fail in a multi-module project?

Question

I have a Maven-3 multi-module project:

/root
  pom.xml
  /bar
    pom.xml
  /foo
    pom.xml

Module foo depends on module bar, and they both have the same parent: root. Everything works fine, until I decided to clean my local repository and run mvn site:site. Build fails with a message:

Failed to resolve artifact.
Missing:
1) com.XXX:bar:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT

It is a known bug or I'm doing something wrong? I didn't configure maven-project-info-reports-plugin anyhow in any pom.xml yet.

Answer 1

If you do site:site, you are running the specific site goal and not the build cycle, thus the project will not build, and since you just cleaned the repository, the artifact will not be there anywhere to use.

See following links for more information about build lifecycles in maven:

http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/lifecycle.html

http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/lifecycle-sect-package-specific.html