[LUCENE-5003] ECJ javadoc linting does not work with recent Java 8

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.3, 6.0
• Component/s: general/build
• Labels: java8
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Uwe Schindler
• Reporter: Uwe Schindler
• Created: 16/May/13 12:02
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:46
• Resolved: 16/May/13 12:49

Description

With jdk8-b89, the linting of javadocs with Eclipse's JDT compiler (ECJ) does no lonmger work:

• The version we currently use (3.7.2) can no longer parse the class files in rt.jar / or does no longer find them
• The latest version (4.2.2) produces a compiler error, because it cannot handle some "default" interface method duplication in some Java Collections interfaces (CharArraySet fails)

I will disable the ECJ linting for now with Java > 1.7