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Bug ID: 4760924
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Synopsis doc: -source is documented as a doclet option, but it is a tool option
Category doclet:tbd
Reported Against 1.4
Release Fixed 1.4.2(mantis)
State 10-Fix Delivered, bug
Priority: 3-Medium
Related Bugs
Submit Date 10-OCT-2002
Description
The javadoc documentation list -source as a doclet options.
That's wrong: it's a tool option.

> Then there's a bug in the tool documentation for both 1.4.0 and
> 1.4.1, at least.
> 
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/tooldocs/windows/javadoc.html#source
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/windows/javadoc.html#source
> 
> In both of these cases, -source is in the "Options Provided by the 
> Standard Doclet" section, not the "Javadoc Options" section.
> 
> The reason this matters is that, for example, the Ant Javadoc task 
> actually has code to prevent the use of the -source option when a 
> custom doclet is being used. They are mistakenly adhering to the 
> buggy tool documentation.
Work Around
N/A
Evaluation
Fixed  in the documentation javadoc.html
 xxxxx@xxxxx  2002-10-09
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