[MJAVADOC-407] Cannot parse annotations when generating javadoc

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.10
• Fix Version/s: 2.10.1
• Environment: Linux and windows.; Maven 3.0.4 , JDK 1.6.0.43
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: jeff porter
• Created: 22/Sep/14 07:02
• Updated: 01/Oct/14 06:33
• Resolved: 26/Sep/14 14:16

Description

See full issue text at : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25971832/javadoc-generation-failed-classcastexception-com-sun-tools-javadoc-classdocim

I'm getting the following error when I do

mvn clean deploy -DperformRelease=true
[ERROR] Exit code: 1 - .java:3: package javax.inject does not exist
[ERROR] import javax.inject.Named;
[ERROR]
[ERROR] TransactionServiceExternalImpl.java:5: cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol: class Named
[ERROR] @Named("transactionServiceExternal")
[ERROR]
[ERROR] java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javadoc.ClassDocImpl cannot be cast to com.sun.javadoc.AnnotationTypeDoc

The POM is this...

<groupId>com.xxx</groupId>
<artifactId>ts-impl/artifactId>
<version>2.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
        <version>1</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

There is only one class...

import javax.inject.Named;

@Named("transactionServiceExternal")
public class TransactionServiceExternalImpl 
{
}

I get the error with

jdk1.5.0_22
jdk1.6.0_29
jdk1.6.0_43
jdk1.6.0_43_32bit
But NOT with...

jdk1.7.0_05
Anyone have any ideas?

Notes: Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 08:44:56+0000)

____________________________

I now know that the reason is that the Maven Javadoc Plugin has changed from 2.9.1 to 2.10. and this is the cause of the problem.

I can see this warning...

[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin is missing. [WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin is missing.

By setting the following in my pom....

org.apache.maven.plugins maven-javadoc-plugin 2.9.1 attach-javadocs jar

I can fix the version back to the last release.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MJAVADOC-416 java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javadoc.ClassDocImpl cannot be cast to com.sun.javadoc.AnnotationTypeDoc
• is duplicated by: MJAVADOC-408 changing maven-javadoc-plugin from version 2.9.1 to 2.10 breaks the build
• is duplicated by: MJAVADOC-409 Generating Javadoc no longer works with 2.10
• is superceded by: MJAVADOC-406 Regression: MJAVADOC-398 commit changed wrong line
• relates to: MJAVADOC-398 Classes from build output directory can cause failure