Hello Nizar, Ty vm. Is there any deployed Javadocs for me to see the end results? What you have linked to me sounds like it only does half of what I asked for, but the Javadocs should be able to show me for sure.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 10:11 AM Nizar Benalla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello David, > > Thank you for the suggestion, this was fixed in JDK 26 > https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8294074. > > Cheers, > Nizar > ------------------------------ > *From:* javadoc-dev <[email protected]> on behalf of David > Alayachew <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, November 10, 2025 11:30 AM > *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Please add a tab to navigate to the tools and specs pages > > Hello @[email protected] <[email protected]> team, > > If I look up the documentation for the jar command in Java 25, I get this > page. > > https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/specs/man/jar.html > > On the top are 3 tabs, titled as follows. > > * API > * Other Specifications > * Tool Guides > > If I click API, it takes me to the main Javadoc page that we know. > However, I have no way to navigate back to that page, other than to use my > back button. > > Could we add the "Other Specifications" and "Tool Guides" tabs to the main > Javadoc page? We could put a clean vertical divider between the group of > normal Javadoc tabs (OVERVIEW/TREE/PREVIEW/etc) and this new group. > > Having that ability to navigate back and forth would help discoverability > a lot. For example, clicking on the "Tool Guides" tab shows me a whole > bunch of features I never knew about. > > Ideally, this is a super low effort feature request to implement. They > even share the same url prefix, so very very little needs to be done here. > > Even if we don't go about making the change, could we at least create a > ticket for it in JBS? > > Thank you for your time and consideration. > David Alayachew >
