I agree with Gunnar Morling, why build the javadocs and docbook docs in the core module. They should be built in separate modules (see HV as well as SEARCH). This way you can also much easier use the -pl flag. For example 'mvn clean install -pl hibernate-ogm-core'. Then you have almost what you want, give or take the checkstyle. As a side effect you get a much cleaner build.