diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/GeneratorUtils.java b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/GeneratorUtils.java

index 771b08b..05fef85 100644

--- a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/GeneratorUtils.java

+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/GeneratorUtils.java

@@ -291,6 +291,11 @@ public final class GeneratorUtils

         {

             // cannot happen as every JVM must support UTF-8, see also class javadoc for java.nio.charset.Charset

         }

+        catch ( NullPointerException e )

+        {

+            // if this happens, then the JavaDoc is messed up, so just ignore it

+            return "";

+        }

         if ( StringUtils.isEmpty( commentCleaned ) )

         {