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

[David Alayachew]

Nevermind, I think I found it.

https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk26/docs/specs/index.html

It's not exactly what I wanted, but it is good enough for me.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 12:26 PM David Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Nizar,
>
> Ty vm. Is there any deployed Javadocs for me to see the end results? What
> you have linked to me sounds like it only does half of what I asked for,
> but the Javadocs should be able to show me for sure.
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 10:11 AM Nizar Benalla <nizar.benalla at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello David,
>>
>> Thank you for the suggestion, this was fixed in JDK 26
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8294074.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nizar
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* javadoc-dev <javadoc-dev-retn at openjdk.org> on behalf of David
>> Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 10, 2025 11:30 AM
>> *To:* javadoc-dev at openjdk.org <javadoc-dev at openjdk.org>
>> *Subject:* Please add a tab to navigate to the tools and specs pages
>>
>> Hello @javadoc-dev at openjdk.org <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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