already existed. As a result, 'maven javadoc' would fail if it didn't already exist. Rather than doing yet another <mkdir> in the javadoc plugin, I've created an xdoc:init goal that creates the directories. Any plugin that requires the use of those directories should make this goal a prereq. I'll be going through all of the plugins to make this change. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-1/plugins/trunk@112741 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68