Building with Java 1.8 throws javadoc creation error

[vikubel]

With Java 1.8, building using command :

mvn clean package assembly:single

throws following exceptions and fails:

[ERROR] at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.begin(Start.java:205)
[ERROR] at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.execute(Main.java:64)
[ERROR] at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.main(Main.java:54)
[ERROR] javadoc: error - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Command line was: <somepath>\Java\jdk1.8.0_60\jre\..\bin\javadoc.exe -J-Dhttp.proxySet=true -J-Dhttp.proxyHost=foo.com -J-Dht
tp.proxyPort=nn "-J-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=\"localhost|*.foo.com\"" @options @packages
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Refer to the generated Javadoc files in '<somepath>\jrobotremoteserver\target\apidocs' dir.
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

Solution:
Reference:

Need to build using following command:

mvn  clean package assembly:single -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true

[ombre42]

Thanks for reporting this. Eclipse added some of these Javadoc items. And sometimes I didn't feel like elaborating on them. Unfortunate that javadoc issues cause a build to fail instead of generating warnings. At least it is easy to fix :)