I don't know if this is possible, but given the overhead of running genjavadoc on every compile (which I don't know much about, but it's enough to warrant the Akka team having it turned off by default), then it seems plugging in to scalac is not the right thing to do. Rather, it would make a lot more sense to plug into scaladoc, because your most likely to want to generate the javadoc when you run scaladac. Theoretically, since scaladoc uses scalac, this should be possible.