An error has occurred in JavaDocs report generation

Well, it turns out that this blog¹ is an almost word-for-word mirror of an article² about using Maven and Java 8 to generate the JavaDocs.

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 12.431 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-05-17T21:13:32+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 21M/157M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin:2.9.1:javadoc (default-cli) on project mrbear: An error has occurred in JavaDocs report generation:
[ERROR] Exit code: 1 - /home/mrbear/beargame/src/main/java/awesomeness/vaadin/editor/Buttons.java:56: warning: no description for @return
[ERROR] * @return
[ERROR] ^

Turns out Malformed HTML is now a thing that bombs your javadoc generation. Add "-Xdoclint:none" somewhere to turn this off.

References

[1] Stephen Colebourne's blog - Turning off doclint in JDK 8 Javadoc

http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/turning-off-doclint-in-jdk-8-javadoc.html

[2] NLJUG Java Magazine

http://www.nljug.org/