Testing Apache Ant against JDK 8 EA builds

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon Jan 6 14:11:10 PST 2014


On 01/06/2014 01:22 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>
>>> * @link and @see have changed behavior, in particular we have quite a
>>>    few places with
>>>
>>>    @see "http://www.winzip.com/wz54.htm"
>>>
>>>    that used to work just fine but now creates "unexpected text" 
>>> warnings
>>>    - "foo" is supposed to create a "foo" non-link and nothing suggests
>>>    that the content must not look like an URI.
>>>
>>>    Both tags ignored content they couldn't parse before.
>
> This looks like a bug that needs to be investigated. The spec is quite 
> clear that strings args should be accepted. It looks like the problem 
> is more with the string arg than with the content of the string. 

Ooops. There is a bug such that @see "string" is only recognized if it 
is followed by another block level tag.  This is now being tracked here:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031212


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