Maven and PlantUML

This blog explains about integrating PlantUML with Netbeans and Maven. For integrating PlantUML with Netbeans and Ant, see my previous blogpost here.

The blog at [2] explained to me how to add PlantUML to my Maven project, using the special plugin developed by jeluard¹.

Just adding the following to the plugins did the trick:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.jeluard</groupId>
    <artifactId>plantuml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <outputInSourceDirectory>false</outputInSourceDirectory>
        <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/site/apidocs</outputDirectory>
        <sourceFiles>
            <directory>${basedir}/src/main/java/</directory>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*.java</include>
            </includes>
        </sourceFiles>
    </configuration>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sourceforge.plantuml</groupId>
            <artifactId>plantuml</artifactId>
            <version>8004</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</plugin>

Netbeans and Maven

In Netbeans you can select Actions on your project to perform. There is a coupling between the action and the goals in Maven that are executed³.

These can be changed by going to your Netbeans Project Properties (right-click your project, select properties) - select "Actions" - select "Generate Javadoc".

Then add the plantuml Maven goal, com.github.jeluard:plantuml-maven-plugin:generate. You're likely to end up with the following:

generate-sources javadoc:javadoc com.github.jeluard:plantuml-maven-plugin:generate

References

[1] GitHub - jeluard/maven-plantuml-plugin

https://github.com/jeluard/maven-plantuml-plugin

[2] Smartics - Using PlantUML

http://www.smartics.de/archives/1313

[3] Netbeans - MavenBestPractices

http://wiki.netbeans.org/MavenBestPractices