While Maven provides a lot of features in various plugins, some of them seem not to be used at all. One example I've encountered lately is javadoc:upload. If you try to google ibiblio.org's repository for javadocs uploaded, you won't find *any*. Well, there a 2 or 3 examples of javadocs but these were not uploaded using the javadoc:upload goal apparently because they are in the wrong place.

Why do I write about it? Since Mevenide 0.3 (Netbeans version) I've looked up javadocs for project's dependencies in the local repository and made them available to the project. The IDE then can enhance the code completion for the classes of that dependency. Version 0.6 now allows to check the remote repository for the javadocs and downloads them if available. (Screenshot here ) Unfortunately I've written the feature without consulting Google first.

Makes me wonder how many other Maven features end up being unused. Is it because there was no real benefit in uploading them or is the whole repository upload workflow not streamlined enough? Or even flawed?