JDK-8151038 : Update javadoc tool version to 1.8.0_60 for generating JavaFX documentation
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: javafx
  • Sub-Component: build
  • Affected Version: 8
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • Submitted: 2016-03-02
  • Updated: 2017-06-26
  • Resolved: 2017-06-26
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-8072461 - Table's field width in "Use" page generated by javadoc with '-s' is unbalanced
Description
Currently the JavaFX documentation is built using javadoc 1.8.0. (See http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2016-March/018769.html ).

Update the javadoc tool version to atleast 1.8.0_60 due to javadoc bug JDK-8072461 which has been fixed in 1.8.0_60.

I have set a high priority (P3) for this issue as the linked Javadoc bug was P2.
(P2 for this issue didn't seem appropriate).
Comments
No plans to fix for JDK 8. Please ping me direct if there's a specific concern.
26-06-2017
We are currently using 8u40 to build FX (including javadoc). We could consider upgrading to 8u60 for the FX 8 code line. Note that for FX 9 we will be switching to using an early access build of JDK 9, so this is not relevant for 9.
02-03-2016