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Stephen Colebourne commented on MJAVADOC-387:
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Based on observation, the real issue seems to be trying to get a build to work
in both JDK 8 and earlier JDKs. IIUC, the -X flag is not accepted by earlier
javadocs, so the only approach is the tedious and non-helpful fixing of Javadoc
to Oracle's artificial standards.
> Handle JDK8 -Xdoclint
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> Key: MJAVADOC-387
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAVADOC-387
> Project: Maven Javadoc Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Stephen Colebourne
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> The Oracle team have added the doclint tool to JDK 8. The tool validates
> Javadoc as part of a standard Javadoc run. Unfortunately, with the default
> settings, it rejects many HTML elements that are perfectly acceptable to
> browsers, and all invalid Javadoc references (@links). This is likely to
> prove very unpopular with developers.
> Action needed:
> 1) Provide a maven-javadoc-plugin configuration item and property that can
> control the doclint tool (currently this requires using additionalparam
> AFAICT).
> 2) Apply the {{-Xdoclint:none}} option by default, so that doclint is opt-in,
> not opt-out (ie. fix Oracle's messed up default). This will also make it much
> easier for developers to handle migration to JDK 8.
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