Please review: JDK-8178725: provide way to link to external documentation

[David Holmes]

On 19/04/2017 9:26 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2017-04-18 19:44, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As explained in the JBS issue [1], this new taglet enables API documents
>> to contain the extLink tag to link external sources.
>>
>> Please review the webrev [2].
> Changes looks good.
>
> Just a reflection: This is heavily biased to Oracle documentation. Even
> if it's possible to override the URL via a system property, it assumes
> the Oracle URL format and id name. Just wondering a bit how that fits
> with the OpenJDK philosophy.

I have to agree, this is not at all general purpose but totally Oracle 
documentation centric.

David
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> /Magnus
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kumar
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178725
>> [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8178725/webrev.00/
>