diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java
index e19b68f2d..5dc3fd636 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java
@@ -5251,8 +5251,8 @@ private void executeJavadocCommandLine( Commandline cmd, File javadocOutputDirec
             writeDebugJavadocScript( cmdLine, javadocOutputDirectory );
         }
 
-        CommandLineUtils.StringStreamConsumer err = new CommandLineUtils.StringStreamConsumer();
-        CommandLineUtils.StringStreamConsumer out = new CommandLineUtils.StringStreamConsumer();
+        CommandLineUtils.StringStreamConsumer err = new JavadocUtil.JavadocOutputStreamConsumer();
+        CommandLineUtils.StringStreamConsumer out = new JavadocUtil.JavadocOutputStreamConsumer();
         try
         {
             int exitCode = CommandLineUtils.executeCommandLine( cmd, out, err );
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/JavadocUtil.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/JavadocUtil.java
index da72cac63..380524eab 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/JavadocUtil.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/JavadocUtil.java
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ public String nextToken()
      * @author Robert Scholte
      * @since 3.0.1
      */
-    private static class JavadocOutputStreamConsumer
+    protected static class JavadocOutputStreamConsumer
         extends CommandLineUtils.StringStreamConsumer
     {
         @Override