The Maven Site Plugin is used to generate a site for the project. It can be used for documentation purpose including the project’s reports which were configured in the POM.

Goals:

• site:site is used generate a site for a single project.
• site:run starts the site up, rendering documents as requested for faster editing. It uses Jetty as the web server.
• site:jar bundles the site output into a JAR so that it can be deployed to a repository.

Configuration:

<plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.9.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <port>9000</port>
          <tempWebappDirectory>${basedir}/target/site/tempdir</tempWebappDirectory>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>

Run the following maven command to deploy your site to local host:

mvn site:run

Launch the site in browser –  https://localhost:9000