Thorsten,
FWIW, the primary change in the new implementation of arg files that
appeared in JDK 9 is that embedded quotes are supported. Previously, if
characters within a string needed to be escaped, the entire string had
to be escaped. Now, you can escape just part of a string. In general,
I've filed JDK-8216522 [1] to track this general issue.
For JDK 9 onward, the syntax rules in this area come down to:
* outside of quotes, the backslash character has no special meaning and
is treated literally
* inside quotes, the backslash character is an escape character, and
must be doub
Guten Tag Jonathan Gibbons,
am Freitag, 4. Januar 2019 um 00:19 schrieben Sie:
> The change that you noted in the URIs is just a side-effect of internal
> changes in the way that the documentation was generated. We removed the
> documentation for the old implementation from 9, and it is a bug that
Thorsten,
I am sorry for the confusion regarding the documentation for argument
files in the javadoc tool.
From an implementation point of view, javadoc and javac behave the same
with regard to argument files. There was no change in behavior between
JDK 7 and JDK 8. In JDK 9, support for arg
