JDK-8305889 : Ability to navigate using frames missing from API documentation
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javadoc(tool)
  • Affected Version: 11
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Not an Issue
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2023-04-07
  • Updated: 2023-04-12
  • Resolved: 2023-04-12
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-8215603 - Remove support for generating frames
Relates :  
JDK-8202961 - Javadoc should not generate frames by default
Description
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Ability to navigate using frames missing from API documentation.  This must surely be a bug because it was so useful for both navigation and making it easy to see what classes belong to what packages.  And everyone knows you don't remove useful functionality,  The search field allows me to navigate - assuming I know the name of what I'm looking for - but clearly does not provide the full functionality of the navigation frames.
Comments
As per https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8202961, the frames have been abolished and are no longer used by default. However below argument can be used to enable the use of frames in the generated javadoc. --frames
12-04-2023