Just a guess: Maven basically only delegates to the javadoc tool provided by the JDK. Did you try without Maven? Java 8's javadoc has been added a much more stringent parser, so you might be encountering http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/turning-off-doclint-in-jdk-8-javadoc.html ?
2014-03-28 22:15 GMT+01:00 Laird Nelson <ljnel...@gmail.com>: > Running a few of my projects under Java 8, I found that the > maven-javadoc-plugin won't accept <link> configuration items that work > under Javadoc 6. > > For example, I have this: > > <link>http://mvel.codehaus.org/javadoc/2.0</link> > > > With Javadoc 8 installed, whatever the maven-javadoc-plugin is doing to > feed this URL to javadoc isn't working and I get: > > [WARNING] javadoc: warning - Error fetching URL: > http://mvel.codehaus.org/javadoc/2.0 > > > This works fine using Javadoc 6. > > Is this a known issue, or should I file a bug? > > Best, > Laird > > -- > http://about.me/lairdnelson > -- Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net Sauvez un arbre, Mangez un castor !