On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 12:41:14 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhuk...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The method is also present in the Java 8: >> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/swing/JMenu.html#setComponentOrientation-java.awt.ComponentOrientation- > > I guess openjdk shows file history from 7u23 onwards IIRC so not sure why it > is showing "Initial load" and not who/what removed it. Maybe the spec > wordings actually was not there but some javadoc trickery was adding the > javadoc comment in to the spec document seeing it's overidden from > JComponent.... > I am not sure what needs to be done here... The `javadoc` tool (or the standard doclet) used to automatically copy the description from the superclass, and it seems that it no longer does. Perhaps @jonathan-gibbons could comment on this change? @prsadhuk You could always add `@inheritDoc` like this: /** * {@inheritDoc} */ ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3213
