Include javadoc jar in Maven repository

[benmccann]

I see in the Maven repo jackson-core-asl-1.9.6.jar and jackson-core-asl-1.9.6-sources.jar, but not jackson-core-asl-1.9.6-javadoc.jar. The majority of packages in the Maven Central repository include javadoc jars. A javadoc jar can be useful for tools like Eclipse that make use of these jars. Also, when using the Play 2 framework eclipsify task, I get numerous warnings that jackson-core-asl-1.9.6-javadoc.jar cannot be found, which is pretty annoying.

[cowtowncoder]

This should not be the case for Jackson 2.0.0 any more. 1.9 uses Ant-based build (with Ant-maven-task), so build.xml (or one of things it includes) would need a patch of some kind to enable this. Hopefully we will get a contribution for this.

[benmccann]

Ah, I see. I didn't even realize there was a Jackson 2. I didn't see it when I looked since the Maven group changed. Feel free to close this issue as I do see the javadoc is there now for 2.0.

[cowtowncoder]

Yeah totally understandable given that 2.0.0 was released this sunday! :-)
You can read more about it at http://www.cowtowncoder.com/blog/archives/2012/03/entry_466.html for example.
I think it would still be nice to improve 1.9, so I'll leave this open for now.

[cowtowncoder]

Actually, better to close unless someone really needs 1.9 javadocs.