RFR: 8267708: Remove references to com.sun.tools.javadoc.**

Jonathan Gibbons jjg at openjdk.java.net
Tue May 25 22:44:16 UTC 2021


On Tue, 25 May 2021 17:32:11 GMT, Pavel Rappo <prappo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Although the `com.sun.tools.javadoc.**` packages were removed in JDK-8215584, some references to them remain, mainly in the form of links in doc comments. Some of those links refer to classes that never existed, which I reckon is due to a typo; for example, this reference
> 
>     com.sun.tools.javadoc.ClassDocImpl#findField
> 
> should've looked like this
> 
>     com.sun.tools.javadoc.main.ClassDocImpl#findField
> 
> Grep showed that some tests also use `com.sun.tools.javadoc` and some other extinct packages. However, it is unclear if those "references" should also be removed:
> 
> 1. https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/739769c8fc4b496f08a92225a12d07414537b6c0/test/langtools/tools/javac/NoStringToLower.java#L60-L74
> 2. https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/739769c8fc4b496f08a92225a12d07414537b6c0/test/langtools/tools/javac/T8003967/DetectMutableStaticFields.java#L73-L85

See the updated review comments about removing the obsolete doc comments.

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Marked as reviewed by jjg (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4192


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