Teams whose builds depend on Maven and that use automation heavily typically end up in writing their own plugins for Maven. Although these plugins are often only released for internal use, developers who employ these plugins need to have access to proper documentation. Maven provides the Maven Plugin Plugin to create as much meaningful documentation automatically from the source code. While it is easy to add howtos and tutorials - which are typically not generated automatically - with the use of the Maven Site Plugin, having these documents as part of the Confluence collaboration platform often makes it easier to apply changes and add additional information off-sync with the plugin's release cycle. Having this information in Confluence also makes it easier for non-programmers to add valuable information.

To create a user documentation for a plugin for Maven the projectdoc for Maven Developers Add-on for the projectdoc Toolbox provides tools to import information from a Maven POM file. This way all properties specified by the developers are accessible as space properties by authors of the documentation.

This approach does require to create a Maven Site with all reports and to link to or transclude from this information. The Information Systems Extension provides macros to access information from remote servers.