I think I've discovered the cause. Commons Javadoc uses the URL defined in Commons Parent POM:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/ Using JMeter to download this URL takes at least 200 seconds (if it even responds) merely to return a redirect to http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/ The redirect takes so long that I get the following error message when executing mvn javadoc:javadoc [ERROR] Error fetching link: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/package-list. Ignored it. No wonder javadoc is so slow - 6 minutes 40 seconds(sun) as opposed to 23 seconds (oracle). Unfortunately AFAICT one cannot override the <link> property (defined in commons-parent) on the command-line, nor in settings.xml. So we need to update commons-parent ASAP. Note: occaisionally the response is a lot quicker; dunno why that is. On 11 November 2010 23:18, Adrian Crum <adri...@hlmksw.com> wrote: > I usually change the Java source code to a small italic font so the parsing > will go faster. > > -Adrian > > On 11/11/2010 3:09 PM, sebb wrote: >> >> I've been testing the NET build, and find that the javadoc phases take >> ages - 5 or 6 minutes each for main and test. >> >> Is this normal, or is there something I can do to speed it up? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
