How to generate jax-rs documentation using maven

To generate the jax-rs documentation automatically using maven, we need to add some plugins in the build section of the project's pom file.

To avoid running this plugin every time you invoke mvn install, you can create a separate profile for it.

Here's the plugin definition:

<build>
 <pluginManagement>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
    <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <configuration>
     <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
      <pluginExecutions>
       <pluginExecution>
        <pluginExecutionFilter>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.enunciate</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-enunciate-plugin</artifactId>
         <versionRange>[1.29,)</versionRange>
         <goals>
          <goal>docs</goal>
         </goals>
        </pluginExecutionFilter>
        <action>
         <ignore></ignore>
        </action>
       </pluginExecution>
      </pluginExecutions>
     </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
  </plugins>
 </pluginManagement>

 <plugins>
  <plugin>
   <groupId>org.codehaus.enunciate</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-enunciate-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>1.29</version>
   <executions>
    <execution>
     <goals>
      <goal>docs</goal>
     </goals>
     <configuration>
      <docsDir>${project.build.directory}/docs</docsDir>
      <configFile>src/main/resources/enunciate.xml</configFile>
     </configuration>
    </execution>
   </executions>
  </plugin>

  <plugin>
   <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.5</version>
   <executions>
    <execution>
     <id>copy-resources</id>
     <phase>validate</phase>
     <goals>
      <goal>copy-resources</goal>
     </goals>
     <configuration>
      <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/generated-resources/schemagen/</outputDirectory>
      <resources>
       <resource>
        <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources/</directory>
        <includes>
         <include>jaxb.properties</include>
        </includes>
       </resource>
      </resources>
     </configuration>
    </execution>
   </executions>
  </plugin>
 </pluginManagement>
</build>

And here's the content of enunciate.xml.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<enunciate label="novaglobalapi" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://enunciate.codehaus.org/schemas/enunciate-1.25.xsd">

 <api-classes>
  <include pattern="org.broodcamp.api.rest.**" />
 </api-classes>

 <modules>
  <docs docsDir="restapi" title="Broodcamp REST API" />
  <c disabled="true" />
  <csharp disabled="true" />
  <obj-c disabled="true" />
 </modules>
</enunciate>