I had to find a way to deploy javadoc towards a server. So I found out that the maven site has a reporting plugin for javadocs. To get all this working on windows follow these steps:

We need SSH so I installed cygwin with the following modules:

openssh
tcp_wrappers
zlip
unzip

After installation of cygwin run it and on the console execute the following command to import your windows system users into cygwin:

mkpasswd   -cl   >   /etc/passwd
mkgroup   --local    >   /etc/group

If you are logging on to a domain you’ll probably need to modify the /etc/group file to match the group ids with /etc/passwd.

Now you can start the SSH server with the following command from within cygwin (don’t know if altering users config requires restart of cygwin?):

net start sshd

And now you can go back to maven to deploy your site. Maven needs the following configuration. Edit POM to contain:

    
      website
      scp://localhost/cygdrive/c/PATH_TO_TOMCAT/webapps/mvnsites/${project.version}
    
  
  
      
            
                    org.apache.maven.plugins
                    maven-javadoc-plugin
            
      
  

Then execute the following goals:

mvn javadoc:javadoc
mvn site:site
mvn site:deploy

resources:
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2006/jw-0227-maven.html