It seems that the javadoc tool is upset by "not well formed" "tags" in javadoc. These specific ones are needed by GWT 1.4: @gwt.typeArgs <foo.Bar> There is nothing in the spec that says that javadocs have to be well formed, and it is a bug in javadoc (which has been corrected - just not sure in what version). I tried to tell maven not to bother about javadocs for that package (as its not really an API to reuse) but to no avail. I am out of ideas - anyone? -- Michael D Neale home: www.michaelneale.net blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com