sourceFileExcludes tag in the maven-javadoc-plugin

Question

Does anyone has an example how to use the sourceFileExcludes element in the Maven Javadoc Plugin ? I've tried the following, but cannot get it to work:

<sourceFileExcludes>
    <sourceFileExclude>**/internal/*</sourceFileExclude>
    <sourceFileExclude>**/Model/*</sourceFileExclude>
</sourceFileExcludes>

Answer 1

Have you specified excludePackageNames , cause based on the docs you should use them instead of what you've written.

<excludePackageNames>*.internal:org.acme.exclude1.*:org.acme.exclude2</excludePackageNames>

which seemed to be more approriate.

Answer 2

It might just not be working at the moment. There is bug logged in the plugin issue tracker - MJAVADOC-365