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The location of site.xml relative to a project is determined by plugin configuration as normal, and defaults to src/site. When locating a parent project, this is done using the normal workspaces/USD technique (using relativePath in the POM, falling back to the repository. Parent project documents are not needed - only the site descriptor.

Report aggregation

Most of the work of this is covered in the individual plugins and the Maven Dashboard discussion, and is out of scope for this document. While the site mojo itself will not be an @aggregator, individual reports are free to do so and should behave correctly.

Breadcrumbing

Breadcrumbs will be stored in the <breadcrumbs /> element.

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By default, the name element of the project will be used as the breadcrumb.

Report aggregation

Most of the work of this is covered in the individual plugins and the Maven Dashboard discussion. When running the site from the top level, it behaves as an @aggregator so that it is repsonsible for generating all of the child projects, rather than using the reactor to do so. This will enable final aggregation.

Skinning

Skinning support will provided by a separate artifact that contains CSS, images and is unpakced over a site. It can optionally contain a replacement site.vm velocity template for generating the final XHTML.

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