On 17/09/2012 11:01, Artem Ananiev wrote:
JavaDoc changes, even trivial corrections and clarifications, are
potential compatibility issues. Previously unverifiable statement can
become verifiable, and vice versa. We don't (can't!) change
compatibility tests in update releases, therefore we can't accept any
specification changes.
The discussion here relates to changes to non-normative text rather than
a specification change. I don't think it matters too much if such
changes are back-ported except that it might be a bit confusing to have
a mismatch between the source code and the docs on java.sun.com (or
docs.orcale.com nowadays).
-Alan
