See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-820 for explanation and links to some of the email discussion. build project and see Forrestdoc generate documentation for itself in build/project build ws and see Forrestdoc generate documentation for the workspace it's put in (workspace/xml-forrest/scratchpad/forrestdoc -> generate for all projects in workspace/) to set a workspace dir manually: -Dws.dir= to set a project dir manually: -Dproject.dir=