How do I make javadoc inheritance work for external APIs? (with Maven2)
When a class overrides a concrete method or implements and abstract method, the Javadoc is automatically inherited unless explicitly overwritten. Or, at least the tool tries to do this. It seems it does not work for linked external APIs. For instance, when I in my code implement java.util.Map , or something else from the JRE, the javadocs are not inherited/copied from the JRE javadocs/apidocs. In my specific case, I am trying to configure this in the Maven2 Javadoc plugin, but it is the same when I run the javadoc CLI tool directly. My Maven2 Javadoc plugin configuration currently looks like