Hey Thomas, long time... Are you defining the docs in a seperate module? If so, have you looked at defining the packaging of that module to be 'jdocbook'? That's how I set this up in Hibernate: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/core/trunk/documentation/manual/... Basically this gives you some default lifecycle bindings. For example, the jdocbook:bundle goal gets bound to the maven package phase, etc. Phases are the things that have pre-requisites (have to compile before testing, etc); goals do not. So when you say to achieve the 'bundle' goal w/o first achieving the 'generate' goal, things will 'blow up'. However, if you set up the phase bindings then you can just say 'mvn package' View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4174670#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...