When I build a maven project, using maven-javadoc-plugin 2.10.4, it generates the .java files with some Javadoc comments that look something like:
<complexType>
<complexContent>
etc...
The problem is the doclint for Java 8 can't handle the ">" symbols that are produced by the plugin. If the plugin would output "& gt;" in place of the ">" this would be okay.
Strangely, the documentation shows output with "& gt;" in place of the ">". You can find this output here at Example 8: http://www.mojohaus.org/jaxb2-maven-plugin/Documentation/v2.2/example_xjc_basic.html:
But after searching for a long time I could find nothing in the documentation about how to get this output.
I don't want to just shut off doclint completely, so I excluded the packages these generated sources belong to, but if possible I'd prefer to not exclude them and find a way to get the output to work properly.