U r using albumbulder tool to generate your own photo album website, below is maven goals u r about to invoke albumbuilder:generate..........Create thumbnails, generate index xdocs and copy images into target doc folder is necessary. albumbuilder:thumbnails..........Generate thumbnails albumbuilder:indices..........Generate index xdoc files albumbuilder:copyimages..........Copy images from source folder into target doc albumbuilder:usage..........Show this message albumbuilder:site..........Generate the whole site again