Please add a tab to navigate to the tools and specs pages

[Nizar Benalla]

Hello David,

Thank you for the suggestion, this was fixed in JDK 26 https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8294074.

Cheers,
Nizar
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Subject: Please add a tab to navigate to the tools and specs pages

Hello @javadoc-dev at openjdk.org<mailto:javadoc-dev at openjdk.org> team,

If I look up the documentation for the jar command in Java 25, I get this page.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/specs/man/jar.html

On the top are 3 tabs, titled as follows.

* API
* Other Specifications
* Tool Guides

If I click API, it takes me to the main Javadoc page that we know. However, I have no way to navigate back to that page, other than to use my back button.

Could we add the "Other Specifications" and "Tool Guides" tabs to the main Javadoc page? We could put a clean vertical divider between the group of normal Javadoc tabs (OVERVIEW/TREE/PREVIEW/etc) and this new group.

Having that ability to navigate back and forth would help discoverability a lot. For example, clicking on the "Tool Guides" tab shows me a whole bunch of features I never knew about.

Ideally, this is a super low effort feature request to implement. They even share the same url prefix, so very very little needs to be done here.

Even if we don't go about making the change, could we at least create a ticket for it in JBS?

Thank you for your time and consideration.
David Alayachew
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