maven-site plugins 3.3 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DocumentContent

Question

Since this night, maven site 3.3 plugins stop to work.

Try to delete local repository, but no change. Maven 3.3.9 java 1.8

No config or dependencies defined

Answer 1

I also hit this error on some of my build jobs today. The fix suggested above, adding a concrete dependency for the maven-site-plugin does work and fixes this issue.

However, what it highlighted for me was the fact I was even running the mvn site goal, which I didn't even know we were running and we don't really require.

My fix was to therefore remove the site goal from my mvn arg, as although the site it creates is actually quite useful, I never knew we were creating it, we never published it anywhere and were actually deleting it every build anyway.