Constructors, Javadoc and Inheritance

I recently had the problem that I defined some very good javadoc documentation on a constructor in one of my generic classes that is inherited a lot.

The documentation, however, is never propagated to subclasses, because constructors are not inherited¹.

It is too bad that I already have to duplicate Constructors in my subclasses, but now I have to duplicate the documentation as well?

Right now, the best solution I can think of is to add a "@see" link to the appropriate super constructor. Like so:

There is a feature request/bug² defined to expand the {inheritedDoc} to also work on constructors. But it has not seen any love for a long time.

References

[1] StackOverflow - Why is inheritedDoc not defined on constructors?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14848999/why-is-inheriteddoc-not-defined-on-constructors

[2] JDK-4810216 : Allow {@inheritDoc name} for constructors

http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4810216