I think we should not disable doclint on Java 8.

Gary


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Javadoc that comes with Java 8 is very picky, and generates errors
> (rather than warnings) for all sorts of incorrect tags - for example
> <br/> and <p/> [1]
>
> This new doclint behaviour can be disabled by providing the command-line
> param
>
> -Xdoclint:none
>
> Unfortunately this causes Javadoc 7 to complain...
>
> Ideally, we should gradually work through the Javadoc fixing the errors.
>
> In the meantime, I have changed Continuum to build http core using
> Java 7 (it was defaulting to Java8).
>
> It would be possible to update the poms to conditionally suppress
> doclint for Java 8, but I'm not sure that is the best approach.
>
> [1] http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/turning-off-doclint-in-jdk-8-javadoc.html
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