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javadoc Annotation processing exceptions
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| If you're seeing | |
| java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javadoc.ClassDocImpl cannot be cast to com.sun.javadoc.AnnotationTypeDoc | |
| the classloader used by the javadoc tool is not finding your 3rd party annotation definitions. | |
| This is a problem present in JDK 1.6. | |
| An quick workaround to enable the classloader to find the annotation definitions is to add them to the bootclasspath using the -bootclasspath option for javadoc. | |
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