[MJAVADOC-395] Add JDK8 support to maven-javadoc-plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.9.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.10
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Laird Nelson
• Created: 21/Apr/14 16:46
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 08/Jun/14 11:29

Description

The maven-javadoc-plugin plugin needs some additional minor work to ensure that it can recognize when it is running in a 1.8 JDK environment.

For example, in AbstractJavadocMojo.java, DEFAULT_JAVA_API_LINKS needs to be updated appropriately, as does the getDefaultJavadocApiLink() method.

Additionally, the JDK 1.8 package-list file needs to be saved to src/main/resources to enable existing tests to pass.

Patch forthcoming.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MJAVADOC-397 Java SE 8: detectJavaApiLink not supported
• is related to: MJAVADOC-393 -link option values have their trailing slash removed; breaks javadoc 8
• is related to: MJAVADOC-394 javadoc is not found properly by default under Oracle's JDK 7+ on Mac OSX
• is related to: MNG-4226 Better detection of JAVA_HOME on Apple Mac OS X