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Every time I try to build the JavaDoc via Build | Generate JavaDoc for Project, I get an error: init: Created dir: C:\Documents and Settings\Zian\My Documents\Personal\Computer Science\Java\JavaDocTest\dist\javadoc Warning: Leaving out empty argument '-windowtitle' Generating Javadoc Javadoc execution Loading source files for package javadoctest... Constructing Javadoc information... Standard Doclet version 1.5.0_07 Building tree for all the packages and classes... java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.decode(ParseUtil.java:189) at sun.misc.URLClassPath$FileLoader.<init>(URLClassPath.java:863) at sun.misc.URLClassPath$3.run(URLClassPath.java:319) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getLoader(URLClassPath.java:313) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getLoader(URLClassPath.java:290) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.findResource(URLClassPath.java:141) at java.net.URLClassLoader$2.run(URLClassLoader.java:362) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findResource(URLClassLoader.java:359) at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:977) at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(ClassLoader.java:1159) at javax.xml.parsers.SecuritySupport$4.run(SecuritySupport.java:72) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.xml.parsers.SecuritySupport.getResourceAsStream (SecuritySupport.java:65) at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.findJarServiceProvider (FactoryFinder.java:213) at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:185) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance (SAXParserFactory.java:107) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.LayoutParser.parseXML (LayoutParser.java:72) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.ClassBuilder.build (ClassBuilder.java:108) at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.generateClassFiles (HtmlDoclet.java:155) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.generateClassFiles (AbstractDoclet.java:164) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.startGeneration (AbstractDoclet.java:106) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.start (AbstractDoclet.java:64) at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.start (HtmlDoclet.java:42) at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.start(Standard.java:23) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.invoke(DocletInvoker.java:269) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.start(DocletInvoker.java:143) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.parseAndExecute(Start.java:340) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.begin(Start.java:128) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.execute(Main.java:41) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.main(Main.java:31) com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.DocletAbortException at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.LayoutParser.parseXML (LayoutParser.java:79) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.builders.ClassBuilder.build (ClassBuilder.java:108) at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.generateClassFiles (HtmlDoclet.java:155) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.generateClassFiles (AbstractDoclet.java:164) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.startGeneration (AbstractDoclet.java:106) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.start (AbstractDoclet.java:64) at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.start (HtmlDoclet.java:42) at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.start(Standard.java:23) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.invoke(DocletInvoker.java:269) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.start(DocletInvoker.java:143) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.parseAndExecute(Start.java:340) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.begin(Start.java:128) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.execute(Main.java:41) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.main(Main.java:31) com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.DocletAbortException at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.generateClassFiles (HtmlDoclet.java:159) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.generateClassFiles (AbstractDoclet.java:164) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.startGeneration (AbstractDoclet.java:106) at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.start (AbstractDoclet.java:64) at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.start (HtmlDoclet.java:42) at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.start(Standard.java:23) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.invoke(DocletInvoker.java:269) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.start(DocletInvoker.java:143) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.parseAndExecute(Start.java:340) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.begin(Start.java:128) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.execute(Main.java:41) at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.main(Main.java:31) C:\Documents and Settings\Zian\My Documents\Personal\Computer Science\Java\JavaDocTest\nbproject\build-impl.xml:392: Javadoc returned 1 BUILD FAILED (total time: 1 second) It does this even for brand new projects. In the example above, I made a new "Java Application" through File | New Project.
I guess it appears even if you run javadoc outside the IDE. IMO it is a duplicate of the jdk bug http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6219854
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