RFR: JDK-8312044: Simplify toolkit Builder/Writer world.

Fri Jul 21 15:14:42 UTC 2023

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 22:21:18 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a medium-sized but conceptually simple change to simplify the overall class hierarchy of the `doclet` world.

This PR looks like a welcome and long-overdue simplification. In fact, I expect more aggressive cleanup soon so that the overall jdk.javadoc becomes much, much leaner.

> * Because of the class renaming, the `<meta name="generator" ...>` information changes; there are no other changes to the generated JDK API documentation.

I wonder what purpose that "generator" meta tag serves. Do we need it in its current form?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14913#issuecomment-1645742304