When I tried to build the JavaDocs for PDFBox 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT (taken from SVN yesterday) with Java 8, `mvn javadoc:javadoc` failed with numerous errors. To correct this, I had to turn off the doclint by modifying parent/pom.xml as follows:
$ svn diff parent/pom.xml Index: parent/pom.xml =================================================================== --- parent/pom.xml (revision 1749587) +++ parent/pom.xml (working copy) @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ </links> <encoding>UTF-8</encoding> <notimestamp>true</notimestamp> + <additionalparam>-Xdoclint:none</additionalparam> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> (Tip taken from http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/turning-off-doclint-in-jdk-8-javadoc.html) -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 121-24)