Re: [platform-releng-dev] 4.4.2 M-Build: M20141112-0800 - Javadoc test f

[Markus Keller <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>    Build logs and/or test results (eventually):
>       http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/M20141112-0800/testResults.php

The test failures in JDT UI are due to a change in
Oracle's online Javadocs for the rt.jar.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/
now redirects to https, but Java's HttpURLConnection doesn't
follow protocol changes.

An immediate fix for affected users is to update the
Javadoc location of their Installed JREs to start with https://

An automatic redirect has been implemented in master
and will be backported to 4.4.2:
Bug
450684: Javadoc URL that redirects from http
to https yields: Unknown javadoc format for <type from Oracle JRE rt.jar>

Test failures have been fixed in master but that will
not be backported (bug 45068 should be enough).
Bug
450861: Test failures in PackageJavadocTests

Markus