Javadoc tool fails on certain AS dependencies' sources. ------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-4557 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4557 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Build System Reporter: Ondrej Zizka Priority: Minor Including certain AS 7 deps sources into the aggregated javadoc (AS7-582) causes it to throw the exception below. Some of these are: {code:xml} <include>org.infinispan:infinispan-core</include> <include>org.jboss.as:jboss-as-controller-client</include> <include>org.jboss:jboss-dmr</include> {code} I'm not sure whether we have someone specialized on JDK tools. It's this known bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6442982 Also discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44853/why-am-i-getting-a-classcastexce... Workaround: Find what annotation causes that, and include it in JavaDoc's classpath. {code} [ERROR] java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javadoc.ClassDocImpl cannot be cast to com.sun.javadoc.AnnotationTypeDoc [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.javadoc.AnnotationDescImpl.annotationType(AnnotationDescImpl.java:46) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.Util.isDeprecated(Util.java:811) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.ClassWriterImpl.writeClassDeprecationInfo(ClassWriterImpl.java:242) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.ClassBuilder.buildDeprecationInfo(ClassBuilder.java:229) [ERROR] at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor17.invoke(Unknown Source) [ERROR] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) [ERROR] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.ClassBuilder.invokeMethod(ClassBuilder.java:101) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.AbstractBuilder.build(AbstractBuilder.java:90) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.ClassBuilder.buildClassDoc(ClassBuilder.java:124) [ERROR] at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor7.invoke(Unknown Source) [ERROR] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) [ERROR] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.ClassBuilder.invokeMethod(ClassBuilder.java:101) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.AbstractBuilder.build(AbstractBuilder.java:90) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.ClassBuilder.build(ClassBuilder.java:108) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.generateClassFiles(HtmlDoclet.java:155) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.generateClassFiles(AbstractDoclet.java:164) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.startGeneration(AbstractDoclet.java:106) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.start(AbstractDoclet.java:64) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.start(HtmlDoclet.java:42) [ERROR] at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.start(Standard.java:23) {code}